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单词 returning boomerang
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Definition of returning boomerang in English:

returning boomerang

noun
Australian
  • A boomerang which is designed to return to the thrower.

    two icons of Aboriginal culture are the curved returning boomerang and the didgeridoo
    Example sentencesExamples
    • A returning boomerang is made to spin through the air in a curve and return to the thrower.
    • Inexperienced throwers can be clobbered by their returning boomerang.
    • There is some conjecture that returning boomerangs could have been used for flushing certain game.
    • Surprisingly, the non-return boomerang is aerodynamically more complex than the returning boomerang.
    • Most scholars believe that returning boomerangs didn't serve much of a functional purpose in hunting.
    • Traditionally, returning boomerangs are lightweight and made of wood.
    • In south-eastern Australia in particular, returning boomerangs were used to hunt waterbirds.
    • The returning boomerang is one of the wonders of human ingenuity.
    • There are 3,300-year-old returning boomerangs in Tutankhamun's tomb in Egypt.
    • So what makes a returning boomerang come back?
 
 
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