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melon-bulb

/mel-uhn-buhlb/US // ˈmɛl ənˌbʌlb //

瓜子脸,瓜子壳,瓜子,瓜果

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Furniture.

    • : a large, bulbous turning, sometimes with surface carving, found especially on the legs and posts of Elizabethan and Jacobean furniture.

Examples

  • One day, he took a monk with a cleanly shaven head and had him walk around a light bulb to demonstrate this theory.

  • The trade in empty bottles should be as eyebrow-raising as the old Soviet dud-bulb biz.

  • His bright idea turned out to be the incandescent light bulb, which he invented in 1880.

  • Death waits for these things as a cement floor waits for a dropping light bulb.

  • In 2007, the Bush administration signed a measure that would finally bring the light bulb into the 21st century.

  • Bang went the fragile bulb, as it splintered into a thousand atoms, and the mercury shot in sparkling globules over the table.

  • Should it fail, the fluid can generally be pumped out by alternate compression of the tube and the bulb.

  • "Take some melon, Mr. Mudge," said we, as with a sudden bolt we recovered our speech and took another slice ourself.

  • The bread-fruit is somewhat similar in shape to a water-melon, and weighs from four to six pounds.

  • Neither the pine-apple nor water-melon grow in Teneriffe, but abundance of the latter are brought from Grand Canary.