单词 | wing-nut |
释义 | wing-nut (once / 2363863 pages) 1n 2n WORD FAMILY wing-nut USAGE EXAMPLESTo be sure, not all the proponents of this liquidation of America’s national patrimony subscribe to wing-nut doctrines; sometimes they just use them. The Guardian(May 18, 2016) Obviously there were some exceptions, but the caricature many of us have of the typical Sarah Palin wing-nut was not the norm there. Salon(Mar 12, 2016) Iowa’s wing-nut brigade has a bill for you. Washington Times(Mar 07, 2016) 1 n any tree of the genus Pterocarya; fruit is a small winged nutlet; Caucasus to southeastern Asia 2Syn|Hypo|Hyper wing nut Caucasian walnut, Pterocarya fraxinifolia medium-sized Caucasian much-branched tree distinguished from other walnut trees by its winged fruit nut tree tree bearing edible nuts n a threaded nut with winglike projections for thumb and forefinger leverage in turning Syn|Hyper butterfly nut, thumbnut, wing nut, wing screw nut a small (usually square or hexagonal) metal block with internal screw thread to be fitted onto a bolt |
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