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flame-of-the-woods

/fleym-uhv-thuh-woodz/US // ˈfleɪm əv ðəˈwʊdz //

火焰之林,火焰森林,林中火焰,火焰般的森林

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural flames-of-the-woods.

    • : an Indian evergreen shrub, Ixora coccinea, of the madder family, having red, tubular flowers in dense clusters.

Examples

  • France 24 is providing live, round-the-clock coverage of both scenes as they progress.

  • Sands was involved in a scandalous-for-the-time romance with the carpenter and there were rumors she was pregnant with his child.

  • Three on-the-record stories from a family: a mother and her daughters who came from Phoenix.

  • Then she managed to struggle a mile through dark, rainy woods.

  • “James Woods has a reputation in the business of not mincing words,” Breitbart posted in September 2013.

  • Sleek finds it far harder work than fortune-making; but he pursues his Will-o'-the-Wisp with untiring energy.

  • Like many another cavalier, he had a flame in every country, or rather, in every town which he visited.

  • She lit another cigarette, and for a few moments looked silently out of the window at the darkening woods beyond the lawn.

  • You never know when you are going to stumble upon a jewel in the most out-of-the-way corner.

  • But Lessard's a overbearin' son-of-a-gun all round, and he's always breakin' out in a new place.