单词 | white-lipped |
释义 | white-lippedadj. 1. Of a person: having pale lips (often as a sign of pain or strong emotion). Also figurative. ΚΠ 1645 Coll. Papers Commissioners Scotl. sig. A1v Divers men of zeale, to the glory of God, and good of his people, blame the Scots, that they are too white-lipp'd, and do not put home with vigour enough the setling of the Church, as they are conceived to have done in their owne Country. 1759 Scots Mag. Jan. 35/1 Dull Night sat list'ning on her cloud-wrapt throne, And white-lipp'd Anguish curb'd the bursting groan. 1800 Earl of Carlisle Step-mother v. iii. 86 Abject slave! Thou worst of villains! white-lip'd dastard villain! 1843 Graham's Mag. Aug. 120/1 ‘Good people,’ quoth the white-lipped priest, ‘heed not her words so wild.’ 1843 New World 4 Feb. 146/1 Yon white-lipped child, who wastes by slow degrees, The heir of want and nursling of disease. 1920 W. J. Locke House of Baltazar xxii, 280 She replied, white-lipped: ‘I'll never forgive you till I'm dead!’ 1964 K. Hanson Rebels in Streets vii. 121 Karen was silent. She was still white-lipped with anger. 2008 C. Slater Good Manners & Bad Behaviour xii. 81 White-lipped with tension, my husband consulted his watch every two minutes. 2. Of a shell, animal, or flower: having or characterized by a white lip or lips. Frequently in names of animals. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > appearance of plant > plant defined by colour or marking > [adjective] > having particular type marking or colouring streaked1600 marbled1629 muscadine1646 agated1665 silver-cupped1688 red-top1705 tessellated1723 lineate1777 fancy1793 red-tipped1800 areolated1802 white-lipped1813 variegated1818 pennaceous1819 streak-flowered1822 limbate1826 unbroken1829 sanguine-heart1840 rivulose1843 pencilled1846 areolate1847 notate1857 sigillate1858 discolor1859 discolorous1860 fumose1866 fumous1866 tricolour1866 unnetted1869 the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Mollusca > [adjective] > of parts of molluscs > of shell or parts of shell testaceous1668 trivalvous1681 articulate1685 tabulous1734 concamerated1747 costated1751 ribbed1752 multivalve1753 umbilical1755 multivalved1759 trichite1765 right-handed1776 ventricose1777 unequivalved1788 sinistral1803 white-lipped1813 white-mouthed1815 turriculated1822 umbonial1824 turreted1826 siphunculated1828 columellar1829 sinistrorsal1830 canaliferous1834 spirivalve1835 turrited1835 versant1839 mitriform1843 paucispiral1843 turriculate1843 siphuncled1847 ventricous1850 camerated1851 convolute1851 perforated1851 parietal1854 septiferous1854 planorbiform1856 planorboid1856 trivalved1856 turrite1856 siphunculate1875 turriform1875 umbonic1877 costate1881 interlocular1888 varicated1891 lirate1894 evolute1896 1813 Catal. Nat. Hist. in Mus. Dublin Soc. 106 White-lipped purple [Cowry]. 1827 E. Griffith et al. Cuvier's Animal Kingdom V. 41 The white-lipped Tamarin. 1894 B. S. Williams Orchid Grower's Man. (ed. 7) 566 This variety forms an effective companion for the white-lipped O. Hallii. 1913 J. E. Rogers Shell Bk. 17 Few phenomena are more interesting than the prompt thrusting out of the jaw and toothed tongue of a hungry white-lipped snail when it is offered a bit of cabbage or lettuce. 1953 H. S. Zim & H. M. Smith Reptiles & Amphibians v. 131 White-lipped and whistling frogs are really Mexican species. 2007 Guardian 26 Sept. 7/1 The new snake species, called the white-lipped keelback, lives close to streams where it feeds on frogs. Compounds white-lipped peccary n. a peccary widespread in Central and South America, Tayassu pecari, having white hair around the jaws. ΚΠ 1827 E. Griffith et al. Cuvier's Animal Kingdom V. 290 White-lipped Peccary. 1902 R. Lydekker Libr. Nat. Hist. II. xxv. 1029 The white-lipped peccary (D. labiatus) is a rather larger species than the last. 2002 G. M. Eberhart Mysterious Creatures I. 81/2 Smaller than the White-lipped peccary (Tayassu pecari ) and larger than the Collared peccary (T. tajucu ). This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2015; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1645 |
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