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fenny

/fen-ee/US // ˈfɛn i //UK // (ˈfɛnɪ) //

芬尼,芬妮,冯尼

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : marshy.
    • : inhabiting or growing in fens.

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Examples

  • But on the shore thereof, and in the fenny places they shall not be healed, because they shall be turned into saltpits.

  • Stamford, and the tongue of Lincoln's fenny shire, upon which it is situated, were passed almost in a breath.

  • Now called Fenny Drayton; a little hamlet about five miles from Nuneaton, in a flat, though beautiful farming country.

  • So far it has escaped detection in its fenny home, but it has been reared from eggs laid by a captured female.

  • He sung of the loose and fenny soil which gradually acquired firmness and density.