单词 | under-sucking |
释义 | under-suckingadj. 1. Sucking from below. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > by nutrition or respiration > [adjective] > sucking from below under-sucking1611 1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. vii. xxxvii. 360/1 The blossoms of vnder-sucking plants. 2. Sucking down. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > causing to come or go down > [adjective] > sucking down under-suckinga1886 a1886 C. Rossetti Poems (1904) 144/2 Who sinks, uplift from the undersucking silt To set him on Thy rock. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1611 |
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