单词 | white-toothed |
释义 | white-toothedadj. Having or characterized by white teeth. ΚΠ 1598 G. Chapman tr. Homer Seauen Bks. Iliades vii. 120 A dog-giuen Hunter sets, vpon a brace of Bores His white-toothde houndes [Gk. κύνας ἀργιόδοντας]. 1609 T. Dekker Guls Horne-bk. sig. B3 The whitest toothd Blackamoore in all Asia. 1795 S. J. Pratt Gleanings through Wales I. 32 The damsels as well featured a race of white toothed, black-eyed, red lipped lasses. 1832 A. Slade Records of Travels in Turkey, Greece, & Black Sea II. xx. 243 A more white toothed, plump cheeked, merry eyed set [of maids] I seldom witnessed. 1870 W. C. Bryant tr. Homer Iliad I. xi. 345 As when a hunter cheers His white-toothed dogs [Gk. κύνας ἀργιόδοντας] against some lioness. 1916 Rotarian Apr. 271/1 Negroes..giving vent to fine, wide, white-toothed, musical laughs. ?1923 A. Leopold Jrnl. 14 Nov. in L. B. Leopold Round River (1953) ii. 29 A little white-toothed, dusky-faced boy haunted Flick's side trying to feed him watermelon. 2006 S. Townsend Queen Camilla 403 The new Graham—suntanned, white-toothed, expensively shod and tailored with a West Coast haircut. Compounds white-toothed shrew n. any of the numerous Old World shrews constituting the subfamily Crocidurinae (family Soricidae), characterized by having white rather than red-tipped teeth; esp. Crocidura russula of western Europe and North Africa, and C. suaveolens of Eurasia. ΚΠ 1781 T. Pennant Hist. Quadrupeds II. 481 White-toothed [shrew]. 1800 G. Shaw Gen. Zool. I. ii. 537 White-toothed Shrew..: the teeth, as the name seems to import, remarkably white. 1937 Jrnl. Animal Ecol. 6 284 Crocidura russula (Hermann), the white-toothed or musk shrew,..occurs on the Continent..but not in Great Britain. 2007 G. A. Feldhamer et al. Mammalogy (ed. 3) xii. 248/2 Shrews with pigmented teeth are thus distinguished from the white-toothed shrews (Subfamily Crocidurinae), which do not have this characteristic. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2015; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1598 |
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