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单词 plateless
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platelessadj.

Brit. /ˈpleɪtlᵻs/, U.S. /ˈpleɪtlᵻs/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: plate n., -less suffix.
Etymology: < plate n. + -less suffix.
Having no plate or plates (in various senses of the noun).
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1800 R. Pocock Memorials Family of Tufton 27 Near this is another plateless stone, which had, as we learn from Weaver, the like representation and request of John Bloor.
a1874 J. Moultrie Poems (1876) II. 387 Bread unbutter'd, which each ravenous boy, Plateless and forkless, seized with eager grasp.
1960 Systematic Zool. 9 223 The plateless Gasterosteus aculeatus williamsoni Girard, 1854, of the Santa Ana system of streams in southern California.
1979 R. N. Pierce Keeping the Flame i. 17 Graham-Yooll and Cox were led to an unmarked, plateless Falcon; they refused to ride in it until a well-marked car from the neighborhood precinct was summoned.
1994 Daily Tel. 19 Mar. (Weekend Suppl.) 9/2 I never put plateless food..down on a naked table top or, worse, on to upholstery.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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