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maw

/maw/US // mɔ //UK // (mɔː) //

颚部,颚骨,颚,颚部的

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the mouth, throat, or gullet of an animal, especially a carnivorous mammal.
    • : the crop or craw of a fowl.
    • : the stomach, especially that of an animal.
    • : a cavernous opening that resembles the open jaws of an animal: the gaping maw of hell.
    • : the symbolic or theoretical center of a voracious hunger or appetite of any kind: the ravenous maw of Death.

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Examples

  • This is where focusing on fish maw and other high-end ingredients could make lab-grown seafood economically viable faster.

  • Several slow, deliberate lunges later, the tortoise’s yawning maw caught the bird, crushing its head.

  • The third time, from her mermaid maw, Emerged the voice of Ringo Staw.

  • Privately, they admit they have to provide the data that feed that maw.

  • The other is that people actually lose skills (even very basic skills) and many of them fall into the maw of depression.

  • Every time I step onto an airplane, I turn to the right and take a good, hard stare into the maw of the engine.

  • Having been caught red-handed with a smoking bong firmly pasted to his maw, the long knives are out for the Olympic hero.

  • Thereafter we were buffeted like chips in the swirling maw of a whirlpool; we fought our way rod by rod.

  • Just what they expect of my babyAin't clear to his maw; my, oh, my!

  • So much for the measure of the maw of the circulating library.

  • "Maw and me done put yo' in a Johnny-cake," she said, an outsider might have thought enigmatically.

  • A school of flying fish, fleeing from some pursuing maw beneath the surface, skipped from wave to wave.