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satin-flower

/sat-n-flou-er/US // ˈsæt nˌflaʊ ər //UK // (ˈsætɪnˌflaʊə) //

缎花,缎子花,绸缎花,缎面花

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a Californian plant, Clarkia amoena, of the evening primrose family, having cup-shaped pink or purplish flowers blotched with red.

Examples

  • He felt his body grow limp (like one of those high-speed films of a flower wilting).

  • Her very first performance onstage came at the age of 4, when she cameoed as a dancing flower in the musical Bye Bye Birdie.

  • There are lovingly tended flower beds along each road and surrounding every barrack.

  • I decorated with marigolds, which are considered the flower of the dead.

  • She was obsessed with the flower-printed, scented toilet paper.

  • Let the thought of self pass in, and the beauty of great action is gone, like the bloom from a soiled flower.

  • The flower stems on the American varieties are much longer than those of European tobaccos and also larger.

  • Black Sheep retreated to the nursery and read "Cometh up as a Flower" with deep and uncomprehending interest.

  • Her face was mild and pale; but it was the transparent hue of the virgin flower of spring, clad in her veiling leaves.

  • And there shall come forth a rod out of the root of Jesse, and a flower shall rise up out of his root.