英语词汇“watery-green”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典-新都网

C2. Modifying colour words (cf. sense 8) to form adjectives and nouns, as watery-blue, watery-green, etc. Cf. water n. Compounds 6b.

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1728 Philos. Trans. 1726–7 (Royal Soc.) 34 114 The Glands on the top of the Crop were..of the Bigness of little Oculi Cancrorum, and of a watery-brown Colour.

1798 C. Abbot Flora Bedfordiensis 297 Mealy Agaric... Cap rather convex, purplish-brown, gills convex, distant, watery-pink, mealy.

1819 A. Rees Cycl. XXI. at Line, Angling The best colours for a line are sorrel, white, and grey... The pale watery-green is also a very good colour.

1841 J. Bullar & H. Bullar Winter in Azores I. iii. 41 A little boy..appears in a diminutive carapuça of watery-blue velvet.

1872 24th Ann. Rep. N.Y. State Mus. Nat. Hist. 61 The black points seated on the radiations, varying in color from watery-gray to dull watery-yellow.

1919 F. L. Packard Night Operator vii. 214 The watery-blue eyes sought the toes of their owner's grease-smeared, thickly-patched brogans.

1998 M. Hulse tr. W. G. Sebald Rings of Saturn (1999) 162 That truly unusual head..was made the more striking by his bushy, fiery-red shock of hair and his piercing, watery-green eyes.

单词	watery-green
释义	> as lemmas watery-green C2. Modifying colour words (cf. sense 8) to form adjectives and nouns, as watery-blue, watery-green, etc. Cf. water n. Compounds 6b. ΚΠ 1728 Philos. Trans. 1726–7 (Royal Soc.) 34 114 The Glands on the top of the Crop were..of the Bigness of little Oculi Cancrorum, and of a watery-brown Colour. 1798 C. Abbot Flora Bedfordiensis 297 Mealy Agaric... Cap rather convex, purplish-brown, gills convex, distant, watery-pink, mealy. 1819 A. Rees Cycl. XXI. at Line, Angling The best colours for a line are sorrel, white, and grey... The pale watery-green is also a very good colour. 1841 J. Bullar & H. Bullar Winter in Azores I. iii. 41 A little boy..appears in a diminutive carapuça of watery-blue velvet. 1872 24th Ann. Rep. N.Y. State Mus. Nat. Hist. 61 The black points seated on the radiations, varying in color from watery-gray to dull watery-yellow. 1919 F. L. Packard Night Operator vii. 214 The watery-blue eyes sought the toes of their owner's grease-smeared, thickly-patched brogans. 1998 M. Hulse tr. W. G. Sebald Rings of Saturn (1999) 162 That truly unusual head..was made the more striking by his bushy, fiery-red shock of hair and his piercing, watery-green eyes. extracted from wateryadj. < as lemmas
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