单词 | yellow-flowering |
释义 | > as lemmasyellow-flowering b. Forming complementary adjectives, as yellow-blooming, yellow-flowering, yellow-looking, etc. ΚΠ 1727 R. Furber Catal. Eng. & Foreign Trees 10 St. John's-Wort, a yellow flowering Shrub. 1789 E. Craven Journey through Crimea 286 I saw a yellow looking Turk sitting on the sofa. 1832 E. Lankester Veg. Substances Food 213 The yellow flowering pea. 1853 Floricultural Cabinet Mar. 72 Deutzia Gracilis..blooms all winter and spring. So does the yellow-blooming Jasminum Nudiflorum. 1864 tr. F. Gerstäcker Western Lands & Western Waters vii. 68 They blew out their dim, yellow-burning tallow candle. 1933 Sandusky (Ohio) Reg. 3 May 8/6 The yellow-blooming shrub [sc. forsythia]..has been in its full glory for several weeks. 1970 Austin (Texas) Statesman 19 May 20/1 [The lump] began oozing a yellow-looking liquid. 2001 Times 4 Apr. ii. 12/1 The aptly named London Rocket, a yellow-flowering plant which emerged after the Great Fire and the Blitz. < as lemmas |
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