单词 | date grove |
释义 | > as lemmasdate grove date grove n. ΚΠ 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. v. i. 92 Vineyards and date tree groves.] 1780 E. Irwin Series Adventures Voy. Red-sea ii. 227 The boats glided along their curling surface: the date-groves rung with the amorous cooings of a thousand doves, and the cattle lowed in the distant dale. 1884 J. Colborne With Hicks Pasha in Soudan 85 The river..is lined with stately date-groves. 1934 P. Bowles Let. Mar. in In Touch (1994) 131 An Arab..tried to convince me that life would be quite enough for me if I would be content to settle down there, take a little house, and buy some date-groves. 2005 Independent (Nexis) 27 Jan. 30 A Chinook helicopter was shot down by a shoulder-launched heat-seeking missile fired from a date grove near Fallujah. < as lemmas |
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