| 单词 | hoodoo pillar |
| 释义 | > as lemmashoodoo pillar 5. Originally and chiefly North American. A column or pinnacle of rock shaped by weathering, typically in arid regions, and often having a cap of harder rock; an earth pillar. Also more fully hoodoo column, hoodoo pillar, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > rocky peak > [noun] tor847 pinnaclec1330 rassec1400 spire1586 prick1604 needle1721 pillar1780 needle rock1784 aiguille1816 nunatak1877 hoodoo1880 1880 P. W. Norris in Rep. Secretary of Interior (U.S.) II. 578 Actual observation is absolutely necessary to adequately impress the mind with the wild unearthly appearance of these eroded Hoodoos of the Goblin Land. 1883 W. Whitman Specimen Days in Specimen Days & Collect 148 I had wanted to go to the Yellowstone river region—wanted specially to see..the ‘hoodoo’ or goblin land of that country. 1921 Chambers's Jrnl. June 373/2 Strange, isolated pillars, the ‘hoodoos’ stood like vedettes on the heights. 1941 C. A. Cotton Landscape iii. 15 The picturesque minor surface-relief forms termed hoodoo columns and earth pillars are slender residual columns of unconsolidated sediment. 1989 E. Hoagland Abbey's Road in Balancing Acts (1992) 258 Talking with him of hoodoo stone pillars and red-rock canyons, I've seldom felt closer to anybody. 2004 Philadelphia Inquirer 13 June n6/2 I'd seen pictures of Bryce's narrow, craggy orange hoodoos, which make the canyon look like a giant, haunted chess board. < as lemmas |
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