| 单词 | curlicue |
| 释义 | curlicue (once / 60925 pages) n WORD FAMILY curlicue: curlicues USAGE EXAMPLESThe love was in the downstrokes and curlicues! The New Yorker(Oct 22, 2016) She tested the dust on the top of the bureau, and then, standing on the bed, wrote in huge cursive curlicues, “Ms. Galadriel Hopkins.” Katherine Paterson, The Great Gilly Hopkins(1978) Its skirt was based on a bullfighting cape with a pattern mixing swirling garlands, flowers and curlicues. Los Angeles Times(Sep 01, 2016) 1n a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals) Syn|Hypo|Hyper coil, curl, gyre, ringlet, roll, scroll, whorl corolla (botany) the whorl of petals of a flower that collectively form an inner floral envelope or layer of the perianth calyx(botany) the whorl of sepals of a flower collectively forming the outer floral envelope or layer of the perianth enclosing and supporting the developing bud; usually green verticila whorl of leaves growing around a stem hullpersistent enlarged calyx at base of e.g. a strawberry or raspberry pappuscalyx composed of scales or bristles or featherlike hairs in plants of the Compositae such as thistles and dandelions round shape a shape that is curved and without sharp angles 2n a short twisting line Syn|Hyper squiggle line a mark that is long relative to its width |
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