| 单词 | porpoise-like |
| 释义 | > as lemmasˈporpoise-like ˈporpoise-like adv. and adj. ΚΠ 1651 W. Davenant Gondibert i. xxxi The Prince, could Porpoise-like in Tempests play. a1801 J. Hurdis Poems (1808) III. 80 How joys the bold intruder, then, at large To flounder porpoise-like, wave after wave Mounting triumphant. 1876 Amer. Naturalist 10 570 Ziphoids. These are porpoise-like animals, without teeth in the upper jaw. 1921 J. N. Hall & C. B. Nordhoff Faery Lands South Seas vi. 126 They..leaped towards the shore all together with a porpoise-like curving of their bodies. 2002 G. M. Eberhart Mysterious Creatures II. 483/2 Charles Moore discovered a Sea monster with a porpoiselike head and a ducklike beak washed up on the rocks at Natural Bridges State Beach near Santa Cruz, California, in May 1925. < as lemmas |
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