cockle 的 3 个定义
- any bivalve mollusk of the genus Cardium, having somewhat heart-shaped, radially ribbed valves, especially C. edule, the common edible species of Europe.
- any of various allied or similar mollusks.
- cockleshell.
- (5)
cock·led, cock·ling.
- to contract into wrinkles; pucker: This paper cockles easily.
- to rise in short, irregular waves; ripple: The waves cockled along the shore.
cock·led, cock·ling.
- to cause to wrinkle, pucker, or ripple: The wind cockled the water.
cockle 近义词
shell
更多cockle例句
- A collection of fossilized cockle shells, each with a natural hole in the top, perfect for stringing into a necklace “or some other intention,” was found fused into the floor of a cave overlooking Cartagena Harbor in Spain.
- We naturally wish to identify all the national dishes; so, "Is this cockle soup, Susanna?"
- They loved to bind his forehead with the cockle shells that decked their own tresses.
- But in Shakespeare's time Darnel, like Cockle (which see), was the general name for any hurtful weed.
- It was the wildest and coldest season of the year, and the vessels in which the attempt was to be made were mere cockle-shells.
- Twelve cockle-shells and a halfpenny china figure were ranged solemnly along the mantel-shelf.