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单词 white-lipped
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white-lippedadj.

Brit. /ˌwʌɪtˈlɪpt/, U.S. /ˌ(h)waɪtˈlɪpt/
Forms: see white adj. and n. and lipped adj.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: white adj., lipped adj.
Etymology: < white adj. + lipped adj.
1. Of a person: having pale lips (often as a sign of pain or strong emotion). Also figurative.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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