单词 | two-leaved |
释义 | two-leavedadj. Having or consisting of two leaves. a. Having two hinged or folding parts, as a door, table, etc. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > [adjective] > types of furniture generally > as having specific parts two-leaved1610 two-leaf1634 fall-down1823 marble-topped1840 spindle-shank1841 spindle-shanked1849 spindle-legged1863 marble-top1869 armed1878 roll-top1884 monopod1890 break-front1928 1610 J. Guillim Display of Heraldrie ii. i. 40 The two leau'd siluer gates. 1611 T. Middleton & T. Dekker Roaring Girle sig. D4v The two leaud tongues of slander or of truth. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Valve, a foulding, or two-leafed doore, or window. 1626 D. Featley Parallel A ij A two leafed Tablet. a1644 F. Quarles Solomons Recantation (1645) xii. 58 Then shall the Castles two-leafd gates be barr'd. 1847 C. Brontë Jane Eyre I. xii. 223 The great dining-room, whose two-leaved door stood open. b. Having two foliage-leaves, or two petals or sepals; having leaves growing in pairs. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > leaf > plant defined by leaves > [adjective] > having many or particular number of leaves cinquefoilc1420 quatrefoil?1440 five-leaved1658 two-leaved1688 septifolious1721 tetraphyllous1731 trefoil1752 biphyllous1756 triphyllous1760 polyphyllous1785 decaphyllous1793 four-leaved1793 bifoliate1836 trefoiled1854 decemfoliate1858 polyphylline1872 trefoliated1900 decemjugate- 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 115/2 Bifoile, or two leafed flower. 1793 T. Martyn Lang. Bot. sig. U8 Two-leaved calyx. 1894 J. Muir Mount. California viii. 201 The Two-leaved Pine [Pinus contorta], more than any other, is subject to destruction by fire. c. Of a book: Consisting of two leaves. ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > kind of book > book of specific form or colour > [adjective] > consisting of two leaves two-leaved1726 1726 J. Ayliffe Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani 191 Her Register..was a two-leav'd Book of Record. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online March 2020). < adj.1610 |
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