| 单词 | bare-belly |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbare-belly bare-belly n. Australian and New Zealand a sheep with no wool on the belly; so bare-bellied adj. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > genus Ovus > [adjective] > of parts of > having a fleece > having no wool on the belly bare-bellied1878 the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > genus Ovus > [noun] > Ovus Aries (domestic sheep) > body and parts of > fleece > sheep defined by short wool1837 bare-belly1878 1878 E. S. Elwell Boy Colonists 109 The ewes have many of them at shearing-time no wool on the legs or under the belly, and hence are called ‘bare-bellies’. Of course, these ‘bare-bellied’ ewes..are very quickly shorn. ?a1880 G. L. Meredith Adventuring in Maoriland (1935) xiii. 143 Naturally, the easiest-shorn sheep—‘bare-bellies’ and ‘bare-points’—are selected first. 1956 G. Bowen Wool Away! (ed. 2) 155 Bare-belly, a sheep with all the wool scraped or dropped off its belly. 1965 J. S. Gunn Terminol. Shearing Industry i. 6 Barebelly, a sheep with defective wool growth caused by a break in the fibre structure. This causes the wool to fall off the belly and legs, and the rest of the wool can be removed with a few blows or even with the hands. < as lemmas |
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