英语词汇“spinney”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

　

单词	spinney
释义	Trends of spinney View usage for: spinney (spɪni) Word forms: plural spinneys countable noun A spinney is a small area covered with trees. [British]regional note: in AM, use copse Synonyms: copse, thicket, coppice, holt More Synonyms of spinney spinney in British English (ˈspɪnɪ) noun mainly British a small wood or copse Word origin C16: from Old French espinei, from espine thorn, from Latin spīna spinney in American English (ˈspɪni) nounWord forms: plural ˈspinneys British a small wood; copse Word origin ME spenne, thorn hedge < OFr espinei < VL spinēta, for L spinetum < spina, thorn, spine Examples of 'spinney' in a sentence spinney `All except their ex-leader, Yoller, who is wounded and now my prisoner in the spinney just outside. Hocke, Martin THE ANCIENT AND SOLITARY REIGN Watching Tandy is going to need someone who knows every rock, wall and spinney - just in case he gets lost. Hilton, John Buxton PASSION IN THE PEAK The rooks were creating bedlam in the spinney but on the distant wind he could hear the wail of a siren. Lewis, Roy A TROUT IN THE MILK (noun) in the sense of copse Definition a small wood A spinney of thorn hung on the craggy edge of the hill. Synonyms copse thicket a bamboo thicket coppice holt Additional synonyms in the sense of thicket Definition a dense growth of small trees or shrubs a bamboo thicket Synonyms wood, grove, woodland, brake, clump, covert, hurst (archaic), copse, coppice, spinney (British) Nearby words of spinney spine spine-chilling spineless spinney spiny spiral spiral downwards Synonyms of 'spinney' spinney Explore 'spinney' in the dictionary*
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