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limy

/lahy-mee/US // ˈlaɪ mi //UK // (ˈlaɪmɪ) //

跛脚的,跛脚,跛足,跛足的

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    lim·i·er, lim·i·est.

    • : consisting of, containing, or like lime.
    • : smeared with birdlime.

Examples

  • They show their distant relationship to birds in that their large eggs are incased in a leathery, limy shell.

  • Munson states that in cultivation it does well in any but very limy soils.

  • I furnish it with a heap of those limy incrustations wherewith certain springs in the neighborhood cover the dead clump of rushes.

  • Cinerea grows along streams mostly in limy soils, and is seldom found in very dry land.

  • Resistant to drought, vigorous, prolific; pistillate; adapted to limy and black soils of the South.