单词 | lion's foot |
释义 | lion's foot (once / 590966 pages) n WORD FAMILY lion's foot USAGE EXAMPLESHis fleetness is in the lion's foot; he springs in the panther, he soars in the eagle, he slides in the snake. McGuffey, William Holmes, McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader(2010) One of the subjects was Androcles, or whatever was his name, taking the thorn out of the lion's foot. Hawthorne, Nathaniel, Passages from the English Notebooks...(2010) The States of Flanders declared it to be a thorn in the Belgic lion's foot, and called urgently upon their sovereign to remove the annoyance. Motley, John Lothrop, History of the United Netherlands f...(2010) n common perennial herb widely distributed in the southern and eastern United States having drooping clusters of pinkish flowers and thick basal leaves suggesting a lion's foot in shape; sometimes placed in genus Prenanthes Syn|Hyper Nabalus serpentarius, Prenanthes serpentaria, gall of the earth herb, herbaceous plant a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests |
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