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单词 lily pad
释义

lily pad

noun

: a floating leaf of a water lily

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web Magaziner was asked about a new Fox ad that compares him to a frog leaping from one lily pad to another — from the governor’s race to the 2nd Congressional District race. Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Aug. 2022 Lucy Smith, a botanical artist with experience working with lily pads, was brought on to draw illustrations of Magdalena’s various lily pad species. Dylan Butts, NBC News, 4 July 2022 The latest addition to the lily pad family has been named Victoria boliviana in honor of the research team’s Bolivian partners and after one of the South American homes of the giant waterlily. Dylan Butts, NBC News, 4 July 2022 Hotaki is among the approximately 2,900 people who are at lily pad locations overseas that the United States used to process evacuees prior to their arrival to the US. Priscilla Alvarez, CNN, 29 Dec. 2021 Next to Zack, in the padded area near the lily pad in the older children’s playground, stood Daniel, a 7-year-old but a few inches shorter than his opponent. Joshua David Stein, Curbed, 8 July 2021 Laboriously paced, the indulgent jolts and bloodless scares, neither deeply rooted nor artfully raised, float as lifelessly as a lily pad on a bog. Robert Daniels, Los Angeles Times, 1 Apr. 2021 In the image, Cotton sits next to an in-progress diorama of birds in a Nile marsh, carefully sculpting a lily pad by hand. Theresa Machemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Mar. 2020 Curtains of Spanish moss hang limply from cypress trees; frogs croak from their lily pad perches, and lazy alligators float through backwater channels. Dallas News, 4 May 2020 See More

Word History

First Known Use

1814, in the meaning defined above

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