| 单词 | lupine |
| 释义 | lupine (once / 26968 pages) 1adj 2n When something reminds you of a wolf, you can describe it as lupine. German shepherds are much more lupine than pugs are. A lupine person, animal, or thing shares some of the characteristics of a wolf. You might describe your brother's sharp-toothed smile as slightly lupine, worry about your sister's lupine habit of howling at the full moon, or admire your dog's noble lupine profile. The adjective lupine comes from the French word of the same name, with Latin roots: lupinus, "of the wolf," from lupus, "wolf." WORD FAMILYlupine: lupines USAGE EXAMPLESBut with the benefit of hindsight this production did, projecting scary lupine silhouettes onto the set to make the point. New York Times(Nov 17, 2016) But it has since emerged that the men simply joined a two-day "DPRK Amateur Golf Open" organised by a UK-based travel company Lupine Travel. BBC(Nov 04, 2016) Splashing through mud-filled divots and fields of purple lupine flowers, we passed sheep perched on the volcanic rocks that litter the landscape. New York Times(Oct 22, 2016) 1 adj of or relating to or characteristic of wolves 2n any plant of the genus Lupinus; bearing erect spikes of usually purplish-blue flowers Syn|Hypo|Hyper lupin Egyptian lupine, Lupinus albus, field lupine, white lupine, wolf bean white-flowered Eurasian herb widely cultivated for forage and erosion control Lupinus luteus, yellow lupineyellow-flowered European lupine cultivated for forage Lupinus subcarnosus, Texas bluebonnet, bluebonnet, buffalo cloverlow-growing annual herb of southwestern United States (Texas) having silky foliage and blue flowers; a leading cause of livestock poisoning in the southwestern United States Lupinus texensis, Texas bluebonnetclosely resembles Lupinus subcarnosus; southwestern United States (Texas) ligneous plant, woody plant a plant having hard lignified tissues or woody parts especially stems |
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