| 单词 | harelip | 
| 释义 | harelipn. 1.  Fissure of the upper lip, caused by the arrest of development in the upper lip or jaw; so called from the resemblance to the cleft lip of a hare.Now generally considered offensive. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > deformity > deformities of specific parts > 			[noun]		 > hare lip harelip1567 hare-shaw1597 1567    T. Harman Caueat for Commen Cursetors 		(new ed.)	 sig. Giiv  				Wylliam Coper with the Harelyp. 1600    W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream  v. ii. 41  				Neuer mole, hare-lippe, nor  scarre.       View more context for this quotation 1634    T. Johnson tr.  A. Paré Chirurg. Wks.  i. ii. 4  				The Chirurgion..cicatriseth cloven lips, commonly called hare-lips. 1785    R. Cumberland Observer No. 98. ⁋11  				[He] had a remarkable hair-lip, which exposed to view a broken row of discoloured teeth. 1855    L. Holden Human Osteol. 81  				In cases of double hare-lip, where the fissure is not confined to skin, the pre-maxillary bones on each side fail to unite with the rest of the upper jaw.  2.   harelip sucker, a fish,  Quassilabia lacera, of the Ohio river and its tributaries, remarkable for the conformation of the mouth. Derivatives  hare-lipped adj. /-lɪpt/ now generally considered offensive having the upper lip cleft like the hare. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > deformity > deformities of specific parts > 			[adjective]		 > distorted lip > hare lip hare-lipped1607 kidney-lipped1648 1607    E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 265  				If the child proue not hair-lipt. 1775    J. Adair Hist. Amer. Indians 277  				I spoke..to a hair-lipped warrior among them. 1854    C. D. Badham Prose Halieutics 114  				The hideous, hare-lipped uranoscopus..the singular position of whose eyes attracted early the attention of naturalists. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online June 2022). <  | 
	
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