单词 | star-mouthed |
释义 | > as lemmasstar-mouthed d. Similative and parasynthetic, as star-distant, star-eyed, star-leaved, star-mouthed, star-shaped, etc., adjs. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > angularity > specific angular shape > [adjective] > star-shaped starlike1578 star fashion1597 starry1597 star-shaped1646 asteristic1652 stellaceous1657 stellate1661 stellated1661 stellar1670 astral1672 stelliform1794 stellular1796 asteroid1854 1646 H. More Democritus Platonissans 25 Fair comely bodies..Ruby-lip'd, pearl-ted, star eyn'd. ?1711 J. Petiver Gazophylacii IX. Table 82 Star-flowred Globe Cats-foot. 1812 S. Edwards New Bot. Garden I. 24 Adorned with many star-shaped flowers. 1836 M. J. Berkeley in J. E. Smith Eng. Flora V. ii. 246 S[phæria] stelluláta, Fr. (star-mouthed Sphæria [i.e. a fungus]). 1854 A. Adams et al. Man. Nat. Hist. 350 Star-mouthed Worms (Strongylidæ). 1855 Ld. Tennyson Maud iii, in Maud & Other Poems 12 Passionless, pale, cold face, star-sweet on a gloom profound. 1859 Ld. Lytton Wanderer (ed. 2) 285 At dawn star-distant thou wilt be. 1884 C. S. Sargent Rep. Forests N. Amer. 86 Liquidambar Styraciflua..Star-leaved Gum. 1900 W. B. Yeats Shadowy Waters 9 More shining winds, more star-glimmering ponds? 1911 A. B. Comstock Handbk. Nature-study iii. ii. 632 If the sunflower has been open for several days, next to the ray-flowers will be seen a circle of star-mouthed corollas from which both ripened pollen and stigmas have disappeared. 1943 S. Spender Spiritual Exercises 6 Outside, the eternal star-tall mountains gleam. 2011 M. Johnston Whispering Death xv. 248 Bullets punched star-shaped holes in the instrument panel. < as lemmas |
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