| 单词 | weedcovered |
| 释义 | > as lemmasweed-covered 3. Thickly clothed with some vegetative growth. Now only in combination, as brake-covered, moss-covered, weed-covered. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > fertile land or place > land with vegetation > [adjective] greeneOE strongc1230 verdant1590 shrubby1598 shaggy1605 tufted1606 tufty1612 covered1632 vegetated1697 covert1707 verdurous1717 shagged1784 matted1791 vegetive1855 scrubbed1870 flourishing1883 1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. (1682) vii. 320 Some were in the covered Fields hunting their prey. 1678 A. Lovell tr. La Fontaine Mil. Duties Cavalry 119 An Army passing through a close and covered Country. weed-covered c. Instrumental, as weed-choked, weed-covered, weed-ridden, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > valued plants and weeds > [adjective] > affected by weed(s) weed1784 weed-choked1870 weed1879 weed-covered1953 weed-ridden1968 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > [adjective] > hidden > by vegetation weed1818 1784 D. Robertson Poems 62 Then why o'erflow Soft Pity's tears the weed-grown urn? 1799 T. Campbell Pleasures of Hope & Other Poems ii. 201 O'er each Runic altar, weed-entwined. 1818 J. Keats Endymion i. 6 Weed-hidden roots. 1857 P. H. Gosse Omphalos viii. 216 This weed-fringed tide-pool. 1870 H. Macmillan True Vine (1872) v. 188 The idleness of another is seen in the meagre, weed-choked produce of his neglected fields. 1897 R. Kipling Captains Courageous iii. 57 The weed-hung flukes of the little anchor. 1898 O. Wilde Ballad of Reading Gaol 12 Every day Crawled like a weed-clogged wave. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses iii. xvii. [Ithaca] 667 In loose allwool garments..trundling a weedladen wheelbarrow. 1938 W. de la Mare Memory & Other Poems 29 Roofless and eyeless, weed-sodden, dank, old, cold. 1953 L. Kuper Living in Towns 300 Waste land and weed-covered pit banks. 1968 E. A. McCourt Saskatchewan xvii. 195 The inscriptions on the wooden crosses in the weed-ridden settlement graveyard. 2001 P. D. James Death in Holy Orders (2002) 8 [I] saw..the dark lines of the old weed-encrusted groynes crumbling into the sea. < as lemmas |
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