单词 | thin-shelled |
释义 | thin-shelled (once / 96880 pages) adj WORD FAMILY thin-shelled USAGE EXAMPLES“We would take that thin-shelled egg and give a normally shelled egg to those condors in the wild. But that’s a short term mitigation.” Los Angeles Times(Aug 09, 2016) One of MIT’s signature buildings boasts a thin-shelled dome, for instance. Scientific American(Sep 27, 2012) Carson reported that birds ingesting DDT tended to lay thin-shelled eggs which would in turn break prematurely in the nest, resulting in marked population declines. Scientific American(Aug 31, 2012) adj of animals or plants that have a thin shell Syn shelled of animals or fruits that have a shell |
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