| 单词 | tortoise-like |
| 释义 | > as lemmastortoise-like tortoise-like adj. ΘΠ the world > movement > rate of motion > slowness > [adjective] unwinged1613 tortoise-like1645 testudineousa1652 pottering1821 soodly1821 snailish1889 glacial1922 the world > movement > rate of motion > slowness > [adverb] slowlyc1384 slowa1398 tortoise-like1645 lently1655 snail-like1825 loiteringly1836 dreichly1844 oozily1871 leadenly1879 snailishly1889 glacially1975 1645 Bp. J. Hall Remedy Discontentm. xxiii. 141 What is this, but Tortoise-like to be clogg'd with a weighty shel? a1649 W. Drummond Poems (1656) 144 Stone-rowling Tay, Tine Tortoise-like that flows. 1804 Gen. Zool. V. 444 Tortoise-shell Tetrodon... The Linnæan name [Tetrodon testudineus] of this fish is supposed to have been given from its tortoise-like beak, but perhaps, with more propriety, from its variegated skin. 1956 P. H. Johnson Last Resort xxiii. 143 His aged, stilted stride, his tortoise-like out-thrusting of the head. 1982 ‘J. Ross’ Death's Head iv. 22 The traffic once more moving, though at a tortoise-like crawl. < as lemmas |
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