| 单词 | thunderhead |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthunderhead thunderhead n. (a) a rounded mass of cumulus cloud seen near the horizon projecting above the general body of cloud, and portending a thunder-storm; hence thunder-headed adj., having, or of the nature of, a thunderhead; (b) nonce-use a large head, as a whale's head. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > cloud > [noun] > a cloud > storm-cloud thunder-cloud1697 storm-cloud1822 thunderhead1851 storm-breeder1867 hogback1933 1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick lxxiii. 365 Throw all these thunder-heads overboard, and then you will float light and right. 1861 L. L. Noble After Icebergs 138 An iceberg rises..after the figure of a thunderhead. 1879 J. Burroughs Locusts & Wild Honey 94 A growing storm or thunder-head in the horizon. < as lemmas |
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