单词 | rain-giver |
释义 | > as lemmasrain-giver rain-giver n. ΚΠ 1872 N. Amer. Rev. Oct. 329 It is the old corruption of the cloud-cow, the rain-giver, the fertilizer,—the earliest idea of Freia. 1922 W. G. Kendrew Climates of Continents xx. 110 The south-west monsoon is essentially the rain-giver of India. 1997 Jrnl. Mod. Afr. Stud. 35 675 The White Nile..provides a small but steady flow that is fed by the eternal snows of the Ruwenzori (the ‘rain giver’) mountains. < as lemmas |
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