单词 | solid-billed |
释义 | > as lemmassolid-billed C1. Forming parasynthetic adjectives, as solid-billed, solid-browed, solid-coloured, solid-headed, etc. Also solid-fuelled, solid-tyred at Compounds 5. ΚΠ ?1611 G. Chapman tr. Homer Iliads viii. 323 When to the solid-ported depths of hell his sonne was sent. 1854 Orr's Circle Sci., Org. Nat. I. 239 The ruminants of the deer and elk tribes are those which have antlers, or are ‘solid-horned’. 1862 Catal. Internat. Exhib., Brit. II. No. 6112 Solid-headed pins. 1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda I. i. i. 13 A gentleman with a white mustache and clipped hair: solid-browed, stiff and German. 1890 Cent. Mag. May 50/1 The White and Black Leghorns are solid-colored birds. 1895 R. B. Sharpe in R. Lydekker Royal Nat. Hist. IV. 68 The beak of the solid-billed hornbill (Rhinoplax vigil) has..a perfectly solid casque. < as lemmas |
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