单词 | white-lined |
释义 | white-linedadj. Marked or outlined with a white line or lines.Frequently in names of moths; cf. white line adj. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [adjective] > of or relating to a moth > marked with a white line white line1809 white-lined1809 society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > racket games > lawn tennis > [adjective] > court white-lined1809 hard1885 1809 A. H. Haworth Lepidoptera Britannica ii. 344 P[halaena albicinctata]. The white-lined Black. 1829 E. Griffith et al. Cuvier's Animal Kingdom VIII. 554 White-lined Guillemot. Uria Lachrymans, Lapil. 1880 Harvard Daily Echo 13 Nov. The eminently proper thing is tennis... White lined courts and nets are scattered in all directions. 1900 Ariel (Minneapolis) 7 Apr. 326/1 A closely fought college baseball game with..the white-lined diamond, the greensward, the players with their colored suits. 1901 M. C. Dickerson Moths & Butterflies ii. 239 Another extremely common Sphinx caterpillar is..the larva of the White-lined Sphinx moth. 1915 L. O. Howard et al. Mosquitoes N. & Central Amer. III. i. 235 Legs black, femora and tibiæ white-lined on the outer side. 1935 Washington Post 4 Aug. x6 There's even a white-lined space reserved for the pedalers on one of the roads. 1985 D. Honig Baseball Amer. xxii. 248 They traveled at night..along the white-lined highways and inhospitable back roads. 2000 Evolution 54 765/2 Scarlet gilia flowers..are primarily pollinated by the white-lined hawkmoth. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2015; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1809 |
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