单词 | sponge-bearing |
释义 | > as lemmassponge-bearing c. With verbal nouns and participial adjectives, as sponge-bearing, sponge-farming, sponge-fishing, etc. ΚΠ c. 1861 E. A. Beaufort Egypt. Sepulchres II. 334 The sponge-gathering is a very lucrative business. 1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2286/1 On the Barbary coast sponge-fishing is..actively prosecuted. 1885 J. E. Taylor Our Common Brit. Fossils i. 16 Fossil sponge-hunting. 1885 J. E. Taylor Our Common Brit. Fossils i. 23 Sponge-bearing chalk-flints. 1887 Encycl. Brit. XXII. 428/2 The method of sponge-farming. < as lemmas |
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