| 单词 | swan-neck |
| 释义 | swan-neck (once / 311035 pages) n WORD FAMILY swan-neck USAGE EXAMPLESIt’s like all of a sudden he let go a million moths all over the dusty furniture and swan-neck shadows and in our bones. Sandra Cisneros, The House on Mango Street(1984) It portrayed Edith Swan-neck on the battlefield of Hastings, seeking among the dead for the body of her sweetheart Harold, last of the Saxon kings. Leblanc, Maurice, The Confessions of Arsène Lupin(2010) The glass was covered with a graceful design in moldings, and the pediments were of various shapes, the swan-neck being a favorite. Throop, Lucy Abbot, Furnishing the Home of Good Taste...(2010) n any of several orchids of the genus Cycnoches having slender arching columns of flowers suggesting the neck of a swan Syn|Hyper swan orchid, swan-flower, swanflower, swanneck orchid, orchidaceous plant any of numerous plants of the orchid family usually having flowers of unusual shapes and beautiful colors |
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