单词 | chaffy |
释义 | chaffy (once / 110461 pages) 1adj 2adj WORD FAMILY chaff: chaffed, chaffing, chafflike, chaffs, chaffy USAGE EXAMPLESFlowers in the axils of chaffy scales or glumes arranged in spikes or spikelets, without evident perianth; stamens 1–3; ovary 1-celled, 1-seeded; seed albuminous. Gray, Asa, The Manual of the Botany of the Nor...(2012) Stem.—Simple; a foot or so high; bearing at summit a crown of large leaves, mixed with many dry, chaffy, persistent bracts. Parsons, Mary Elizabeth, The Wild Flowers of California: The...(2012) “Yes; but words are only words after all, and if they are light and chaffy, they don’t grow like good grain. Fenn, George Manville, The Parson O' Dumford(2010) 1 adj abounding in or covered with or resembling or consisting of chaff 2Syn chafflike adj value an empty chaffy book by a foolish chaffy fellow Syn worthless lacking in usefulness or value |
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