leprous
/lep-ruhs/US // ˈlɛp rəs //UK // (ˈlɛprəs) //
麻风病,麻风的,麻风病的,麻风病患者
Definitions
adj.形容词 adjective
- 1
- : Pathology. affected with leprosy.
- : of or resembling leprosy.
- : Botany, Zoology. covered with scales.
Examples
She smiled faintly, and then a tear rolled down the leprous cheek.
It has been given in obstructions of the liver and cutaneous affections of the leprous kind.
But you and I, Gentlemen, let us thank God we are not officially barked about with such a leprous elephantiasis as that.
Unhealthy, leprous-white was the skin, and there was not one hair, eyelash or eyebrow on the whole head.
And he thought of the photograph on Petersen's leprous wall.
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