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单词 monk's rhubarb
释义

monk /mungk/

noun
  1. A man (other than a friar, but loosely often applied to a friar also) of a religious community living together under vows
  2. A hermit (obsolete)
  3. A bullfinch
  4. An inky blotch or overinked place in print
  5. Touchwood for firing mines (obsolete)
ORIGIN: OE munuc, from L monachus, from Gr monachos, from monos alone

monkˈery noun (derogatory)

  1. Monasticism
  2. Behaviour of monks
  3. Monks collectively

monkˈhood noun

The state or character of a monk

monkˈish adjective (derogatory)

  1. Relating to a monk
  2. Like a monk
  3. Monastic

monkˈishly adverb

monkˈishness noun

monkˈfish noun

  1. The angelfish (shark)
  2. Any of several types of angler-fish

monk's cloth noun

A type of heavy cotton cloth

monk seal noun

A seal (Monachus albiventer) of the Black Sea, Mediterranean, and NW Africa, dark grey above, light underneath

monksˈhood noun

Wolfsbane, a poisonous ranunculaceous plant (genus Aconitum) with a large hoodlike posterior sepal

monk's rhubarb noun

Patience-dock

monk's seam noun (nautical)

A strong seam formed by overlapping two pieces and stitching on each side and down the middle (also middle-stitching)

rhubarb /rooˈbärb or -bərb/

noun
  1. Any species of the genus Rheum, of the dock family
  2. The rootstock (chiefly of Rheum officinale) used for its purgative properties
  3. The leaf-stalks (chiefly of Rheum rhaponticum) cooked and used as if fruit
  4. A squabble, row, rumpus (slang)
  5. A word muttered repeatedly to give the impression of indistinct background conversation (theatre)
  6. Nonsense
ORIGIN: OFr reubarbe, from LL rheubarbarum, for rhābarbarum, from Gr rhā rhubarb, from Rhā the Volga, and L barbarum (neuter), from Gr barbaron foreign; infl by rhēum, Gr rhēon

rhuˈbarbing noun (theatre)

The use or practice of muttering rhubarb or a similar sound

rhuˈbarby adjective

monk's rhubarb

Patience dock
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