单词 | dambo |
释义 | dambon. Central African. A grassy clearing. Π 1907 Macmillan's Mag. Jan. 194 Large open patches, or dambos, covered with fresh green grass and well-watered. 1916 Cornhill Mag. Mar. 385 Crossing those ‘dambos’ in the fierce heat of the day. 1927 Observer 20 Nov. 21 Northern Rhodesia, which consists mainly of orchard bush interspersed with dambas. 1954 New Biol. 17 13 Wherever the drainage is sufficiently retarded to give grey soils, seasonal water-logging is common and grassy ‘dambos’ result on the valley flats. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < n.1907 |
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