| 单词 | composite |
| 释义 | composite (once / 1538 pages) 1adjn 2nadj A composite is something made up of complicated and related parts. A composite photograph of your family might have your eyes, your sister’s nose, your dad’s mouth, and your mother’s chin. Composite comes from the Latin for "putting together." It can be used as a noun or adjective. If you and five friends put together a map showing all the places each of you has ever lived, you’ve created a composite. You could also describe it as a composite map of your lives. Composite is also the name of a family of plants that have many little flowers wound so densely together that it just looks like one flower. WORD FAMILYcomposite: compositely, compositeness, composites USAGE EXAMPLESStocks closed slightly higher Tuesday, nudging the Nasdaq composite to a record high and edging the Dow Jones industrial average closer to 20,000. Seattle Times(Dec 27, 2016) The center serves about 150 customers, including companies such as Scaled Composites and Stratolaunch Systems. Los Angeles Times(Dec 23, 2016) The Shanghai Composite index was unchanged at 3,287.25 and shares in New Zealand, Taiwan and Southeast Asia were mixed. Seattle Times(Dec 21, 2016) 1 1adj consisting of separate interconnected parts Syn complex complicated in structure; consisting of interconnected parts 2n a conceptual whole made up of complicated and related parts 2Syn|Hypo|Hyper complex hybrid a composite of mixed origin syndromea complex of concurrent things whole all of something including all its component elements or parts 1n considered the most highly evolved dicotyledonous plants, characterized by florets arranged in dense heads that resemble single flowers Syn|Hypo|Hyper composite plant compass flower, compass plant any of several plants having leaves so arranged on the axis as to indicate the cardinal points of the compass everlasting, everlasting flowerany of various plants of various genera of the family Compositae having flowers that can be dried without loss of form or color Anthemis cotula, dog fennel, mayweed, stinking chamomile, stinking mayweedwidespread rank-smelling weed having white-rayed flower heads with yellow discs Anthemis tinctoria, dyers' chamomile, golden marguerite, yellow chamomileEurasian perennial herb with hairy divided leaves and yellow flowers; naturalized in North America Anthemis arvensis, corn chamomile, corn mayweed, field chamomileEuropean white-flowered weed naturalized in North America Chrysanthemum maximum, Leucanthemum maximum, oxeye daisysimilar to oxeye daisy Chrysanthemum maximum maximum, Leucanthemum superbum, shasta daisyhybrid garden flower derived from Chrysanthemum maximum and Chrysanthemum lacustre having large white flower heads resembling oxeye daisies; often placed in the genus Chrysanthemum Chrysanthemum lacustre, Leucanthemum lacustre, Pyrenees daisyperennial of Portugal similar to the oxeye daisy Chrysanthemum ptarmiciflorum, Tanacetum ptarmiciflorum, dusty miller, silver lace, silver-laceshrubby perennial of the Canary Islands having white flowers and leaves and hairy stems covered with dustlike down; sometimes placed in genus Chrysanthemum Tanacetum vulgare, golden buttons, scented fern, tansycommon perennial aromatic herb native to Eurasia having buttonlike yellow flower heads and bitter-tasting pinnate leaves sometimes used medicinally crown beard, crown-beard, crownbeardany plant of the genus Verbesina having clustered white or yellow flower heads Acroclinium roseum, pink paper daisy, pink-and-white everlastingflower of southwestern Australia having bright pink daisylike papery flowers; grown for drying Anaphalis margaritacea, cottonweed, pearly everlastingan American everlasting having foliage with soft wooly hairs and corymbose heads with pearly white bracts cudweedany of numerous plants of the genus Gnaphalium having flowers that can be dried without loss of form or color Helichrysum bracteatum, golden everlasting, strawflower, yellow paper daisyAustralian plant naturalized in Spain having flowers of lemon yellow to deep gold; the frequent choice of those who love dried flowers strawflowerany of various plants of the genus Helipterum Lactuca scariola, Lactuca serriola, horse thistle, prickly lettuceEuropean annual wild lettuce having prickly stems; a troublesome weed in parts of United States Helichrysum secundiflorum, Ozothamnus secundiflorus, cascade everlastingshrub with white woolly branches and woolly leaves having fragrant flowers forming long sprays; flowers suitable for drying; sometimes placed in genus Helichrysum Helipterum manglesii, Rhodanthe manglesii, Swan River everlasting, rhodantheAustralian annual everlasting having light pink nodding flower heads; sometimes placed in genus Helipterum Silphium laciniatum, rosinweedNorth American perennial having a resinous odor and yellow flowers Actinomeris alternifolia, Verbesina alternifolia, golden honey plant, golden ironweed, wingstem, yellow ironweedperennial herb with showy yellow flowers; the eastern United States Verbesina encelioides, Ximenesia encelioides, butter daisy, cowpen daisy, golden crown beard, golden crownbeardcoarse greyish-green annual yellow-flowered herb; southwestern United States to Mexico Verbesina helianthoides, gravelweedperennial herb with yellow flowers; southern and south central United States Verbesina virginica, Virginia crownbeard, frost-weed, frostweedtall perennial herb having clusters of white flowers; the eastern United States Xeranthemum annuum, immortellemostly widely cultivated species of everlasting flowers having usually purple flowers; southern Europe to Iran; naturalized elsewhere flower a plant cultivated for its blooms or blossoms 2adj of or relating to or belonging to the plant family Compositae |
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