| 单词 | thistledown |
| 释义 | thistledown (once / 18184 pages) n WORD FAMILY thistledown: thistledowns USAGE EXAMPLESRose had placed a table displaying his birdhouses on the corner of his son’s Junction City gated driveway, down a gravel road near Thistledown Farms. Washington Times(Oct 22, 2016) It bore him to the ground as gently as a puff of thistledown. Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind(2007) Adam saw a big man, bearded like a patriarch, his graying hair stirring in the air like thistledown. John Steinbeck, East of Eden(1952) n pappus of a thistle consisting of silky featherlike hairs attached to the seed-like fruit of a thistle Hyper pappus calyx composed of scales or bristles or featherlike hairs in plants of the Compositae such as thistles and dandelions |
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