单词 | meadow-like |
释义 | > as lemmasˈmeadow-like ˈmeadow-like adj. ΚΠ 1679 in B. D. Hicks Rec. N. & S. Hempstead, Long Island (1896) I. 205 A Certaine Parcell of Land containing two & twenty acres of uplands with a piece of Medow like land. 1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick lviii. 305 That part of the sea known among whalemen as the ‘Brazil Banks’ [bears that name] because of this remarkable meadow-like appearance, caused by the vast drifts of brit continually floating in those latitudes. 1998 Stornoway Gaz. 31 Dec. 4/3 In summer the croft took on a verdant, meadow-like appearance. < as lemmas |
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