| 单词 | sun-red |
| 释义 | > as lemmassun-red sun-red adj. (a) of a vivid red colour resembling that of the rising or setting sun; (b) reddened by the sun, spec. (of a person or part of the body) sunburnt; cf. sun-reddened n. at Compounds 4b(b).Sense (b) overlaps with, and is sometimes difficult to distinguish from, sense (a). ΚΠ 1861 L. L. Noble After Icebergs 176 The sun-red blushes of beauty. 1913 D. H. Lawrence Sons & Lovers ix. 232 The back of his neck was sun-red when he bent down. 1922 J. Abbott Red-Robin iv. 50 A mite of a girl with a halo of sun-red hair smiled at him in a very friendly fashion. 1939 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 25 162 The pollen parent of the third cross was a dilute sun-red plant..with yellow endosperm. 1973 Las Cruces (New Mexico) Sun News 13 Apr. 6/4 (advt.) Navy or sun red shirt-jacket with split-side detail. 1988 Washington Post (Nexis) 29 May (Final ed.) w37 At night there's soft, flattering candlelight, just right to play up a tan or make the best of a sun-red nose. 1993 Plant Cell 5 1808/1 These data indicate that the recessive sun-red pl alleles are not null, but that instead, they synthesize functional mRNA and protein. 2009 A. McGrath Satan's Kingdom 159 His harrowed sun-red face. < as lemmas |
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