| 单词 | tortoiseshell |
| 释义 | tortoiseshell (once / 24122 pages) 1n 2n 3n WORD FAMILY tortoiseshell: tortoiseshells USAGE EXAMPLESI got them this summer, and I’m a big fan of tortoiseshell. New York Times(Dec 08, 2016) The son of Libyan Jews who fled to Italy in the early 1960s, he favors pinstriped suits and round tortoiseshell glasses. New York Times(Nov 19, 2016) Mr. Amerighi has long, wavy hair to his shoulders and a graying beard, wears distinguished tortoiseshell glasses and carries a burned-out cigar. New York Times(Oct 25, 2016) 1 n the mottled horny substance of the shell of some turtles 2Hyper horn the material (mostly keratin) that covers the horns of ungulates and forms hooves and claws and nails n a cat having black and cream-colored and yellowish markings 3Syn|Hyper calico cat, tortoiseshell-cat Felis catus, Felis domesticus, domestic cat, house cat any domesticated member of the genus Felis n brilliantly colored; larvae feed on nettles Syn|Hyper tortoiseshell butterfly brush-footed butterfly, four-footed butterfly, nymphalid, nymphalid butterfly medium to large butterflies found worldwide typically having brightly colored wings and much-reduced nonfunctional forelegs carried folded on the breast |
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