| 单词 | bone cave |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbone cave bone cave n. (the name of) a cave in which many bones (typically hundreds or thousands of years old) have been found. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > low land > hole or pit > [noun] > cave > other hill-den1582 self-open1674 ice cave1770 bone cave1813 rock house1860 cavelet1864 1813 D. T. Maddox Let. 17 Aug. in Niles' Weekly Reg. (1814) 26 Feb. 175/1 I was arrested by curiosity to visit the Big Bone Cave. 1831 National Mag. 2 244/2 (heading) Bone caves discovered in New Holland. 1878 A. C. Ramsay Physical Geol. & Geogr. Great Brit. xxviii. 459 Bone-caves..always occur in limestone strata. 1959 Jrnl. Royal Anthropol. Inst. 89 201 The relationship of this new site to the ‘Bone Cave’ in which the remains of Broken Hill Man were found. 1998 Geogr. Jrnl. 164 101/1 Bone caves, i.e. those with Pleistocene palaeontological or archaeological remains are mostly missing (Victoria Cave near Settle is not mentioned). < as lemmas |
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