| 单词 | bird-ridden |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbird-ridden (b) Modifying past participles, forming adjectives, as in bird-haunted, bird-ridden, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > [adjective] > overrun or swarming with birds winged1637 bird-ridden1835 the world > animals > birds > [adjective] > haunted by birds bird-haunted1897 1835 W. Beckford Recoll. Monasteries Alcobaça & Batalha 163 These bird-ridden dominions. 1897 Daily News 29 June 6/3 The bird-haunted estuary of a river falling into Lake Tanganyika. 1925 W. de la Mare Broomsticks 256 The bird-haunted, sheep-grazed meadows. a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) II. 1151 Birds do not settle on flowers, hence bird-pollinated flowers do not show landing-stage petals. 2020 Irish Times (Nexis) 30 Oct. 8 Gillian Burke wanders bird-infested wetlands where once there were beautiful coal mines. < as lemmas |
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