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rotund

/roh-tuhnd/US // roʊˈtʌnd //UK // (rəʊˈtʌnd) //

圆鼓鼓的,圆润的,圆鼓鼓,胖胖的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : round in shape; rounded: ripe, rotund fruit.
    • : plump; fat.
    • : full-toned or sonorous: rotund speeches.

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Examples

  • If Mike Huckabee runs for president in 2016, he could deliver the Republican nomination to a telegenic, rotund governor.

  • The rotund rapper pled guilty to not paying taxes from 2007 to 2008.

  • The surprise choice was the gregarious rotund 77-year-old patriarch of Venice.

  • Bilbo (like most Hobbits) is supposed to be rotund, and Bilbo is said to be more than 50 years old.

  • Perched next to the officers was a rotund thirty-nine-year-old writer with thick wire-rim glasses named Abbott Joseph Liebling.

  • She stood looking at him as he danced around the bag, busily punching its rotund sides.

  • A little beyond these three hippopotami floated in the water, only the upper parts of their heads and rotund bodies being visible.

  • Wrecked freighters from Saturn or Earth floated beside rotund grain-boats from Jupiter.

  • A little rotund individual, smiling, lets me know that he has seen a number of my pictures.

  • There is a rotund, porpoise-shaped globular gentleman known of these parts as 'Bim the Button Man.'