| 单词 | bird-footed |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbird-footed d. Forming adjectives with the sense ‘that has a bird's ——’, ‘having —— like a bird's’ by combining with a noun + -ed, as in bird-eyed, bird-boned, bird-footed, bird-headed, etc.Cf. bird-hipped adj., and bird-mouthed adj. at Compounds 2a, as well as bird-brained adj. at bird brain n. Derivatives and bird-winged adj. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > eye > [adjective] > by size, shape, etc. > having goggle-eyedc1384 well-eyed1483 pink-eyed1519 hollow-eyeda1529 small-eyed1555 great-eyed1558 bird-eyed1564 out-eyed1570 large-eyed1575 full-eyed1581 bright-eyed1590 wall-eyed1590 beetle-eyed1594 fire-eyed?1594 young-eyed1600 open-eyed1601 soft-eyed1606 narrow-eyed1607 broad-eyed?1611 saucer-eyed1612 ox-eyed1621 pig-eyed1655 glare-eyed1683 pit-eyed1696 dove-eyed1717 laughing-eyed1784 almond1786 wide-eyed1789 moon-eyed1790 big-eyed1792 gooseberry-eyed1796 red-eyed1800 unsealed1800 screw-eyed1810 starry-eyed1818 pinkie-eyed1824 pop-eyed1830 bead-eyed1835 fishy-eyed1836 almond-eyed1849 boopic1854 sharp-set1865 bug-eyed1872 beady-eyed1873 bias-eyed1877 blank-eyed1881 gape-eyed1889 glass-eyed1889 stone-eyed1890 pie-eyed1900 slitty-eyed1908 steely-eyed1964 megalopic1985 the world > animals > birds > parts of or bird defined by > [adjective] > having bird's head bird-headed1849 1564 W. Bullein Dialogue against Fever Pestilence f. 43 He is a burde iyed iade, I warrant you. 1590 ‘Pasquil’ First Pt. Pasquils Apol. sig. Ciij The fellowe is bird eyed, he startles and snuffes at euery shadow. ?a1808 Universal Syst. Nat. Hist. XIV. 55 Pedated, or bird-footed, when a bifid petiole connects folioles on its interior side only. 1849 Dublin Univ. Mag. Nov. 568/1 This divinity resembling the bird-headed deity of the Egyptians, called Toth, is to be met with in many Buddhist temples in Ceylon. 1892 E. R. Lankester tr. E. Haeckel Hist. Creation (ed. 4) II. 293 Derivation of Birds from Bird-legged Sauria (Ornithoscelides). 1916 Jrnl. Royal Anthropol. Inst. 66 184 The human figure with the two supporting bird-headed manaias, a design recurring..through the whole field of Maori carving. 1933 W. de la Mare Fleeting & Other Poems 80 In your bird-eyed wonder. 1944 D. Stewart in D. M. Davin N.Z. Short Stories (1953) 171 I talked to her about bird-voiced Ana Hato at Rotorua. 1986 W. Balliett Amer. Musicians (1990) 240 Jackson is short and bird-boned. 1999 A. Arensberg Incubus v. xiv. 153 He called on Gilbert Barber, the head of the theology department, a bird-beaked man with a pin in his hip and, as he put it, ‘a relationship with pain’. 2000 Leyland's Austral. Winter 47/1 A life size replica of a bird footed dinosaur. 2019 A. Bobrow-Strain Death & Life Aida Hernandez xx. 217 As bird boned and frail looking as Jazmin appeared, she had somehow survived the chaos and abuse of her early life relatively unscathed. < as lemmas |
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