cockspur如何读

英:['kɒkspɜ:]

美:['kɒkˌspɜ]

cockspur是什么意思

  • n.鸡距;山卢类;跳蝼蛄

cockspur英英释义

noun

a cock's spur

cockspur thorn

a small West Indian tree (Pisonia aculeata)

in Honduras any of several spiny trees of the genus Acacia

a bur grass (Cenchrus echinatus)

an annual European weed (Centaurea melitensis) naturalized in North and South America

orchard grass

spur sense 5e

cockspur词源中文解释

"公鸡腿上的尖刺," 源于1590年代的 cock (n.1) + spur (n.)。

cockspur词源英文解释

cock >entry 1 + spur

cockspur 例句

1 A naked cockspur hawthorn tree stands in new soil, and freshly dug plants bend in the wind.

一棵光秃秃的鸡距山楂树挺立在新培的土壤上,刚刚栽上的植物在风中摇曳。

2 The shape and general appearance of this tube has procured for it, among the workmen, the name of the "cockspur" burner.

3 The cockspur thorn is a small, handsome tree, fifteen to twenty feet high, with stiff branches in a broad round head.

4 These props have fanciful names, such as "spurs," "stilts," "cockspurs," etc.

5 In the way of fruit-bearing shade trees he recommends sugar maple, flowering dogwood, white and cockspur thorn, native red mulberry, tupelo, black cherry, choke cherry, and mountain ash.

6 It was somewhat more efficient than the cockspur burner.

7 The size of the flame being, in comparison with that of the cockspur, so much larger proportionately to the metal burner, the cooling effect of the latter was not so apparent.

8 All the year long the cockspur thorn is a beautiful, ornamental tree and a competent hedge plant, popular alike in Europe and America.

9 And who wants your old strip of sand and cockspurs?

10 He used two types of burners, the Argand and the cockspur.

11 But to whomsoever is due the credit of its invention, certain is it that the batswing burner was a considerable improvement upon the old cockspur.

12 The little lady hath no shoon, no skirt that holds together, save by the grace of cockspur thorns that bind the tatters.

13 When Australia was first colonised, any sensible man might have foreboded sorrel, cockspur, Scotch thistle, &c., as unwelcome, but unavoidable, adjuncts of settlement.

14 Large plains, with thorny jungles and bushes of the long cockspur thorn interspersed, formed the character of the ground.

15 Green bristlegrass was dominant species, and fat hen and cockspur grass were subdominant species.

研究区内有野生草本植物25种,其中优势种群是狗尾草种群, 亚优势种群为灰菜、稗草种群.

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