| 单词 | rigid-bodied |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrigid-bodied C1. Forming adjectives, chiefly parasynthetic, as rigid-bodied, rigid-leaved, etc. ΚΠ 1757 W. Watson in Philos. Trans. 1756 (Royal Soc.) 49 815 The rigid leaved Bell-flowers, with a diffusive panicle and patulous flowers. 1815 J. Scott Visit to Paris iii. 42 The thin-faced rigid-nerved men. 1831 W. J. Hooker Brit. Flora (ed. 2) 431 R[uscus]aculeatus, Linn. (common Butcher's-broom), stem rigid branched, leaves ovato-accuminate very rigid and pungent. 1869 A. R. Wallace Malay Archipel. II. xxxix. 430 The little rigid-tailed Nasiterna. 1870 W. Morris Earthly Paradise I. 460 That..melody, He drew from out the rigid-seeming lyre. 1932 W. Faulkner Light in August vii. 140 He walked stiffly past her, rigidfaced. 1958 H. G. Sanders Outl. Brit. Crop Husbandry (ed. 3) 105 The special implement for the operation is called a broadshare, and it is a heavily built, rigid-tined cultivator. 2007 Guardian (Nexis) 18 Aug. (Travel section) 3 Travel..to Cameroon in one of Dragoman Overland's heavy-duty, rigid bodied safari trucks. < as lemmas |
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