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sprawly

/spraw-lee/US // ˈsprɔ li //

蔓生的,稀疏的,蔓生,绵延的

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    sprawl·i·er, sprawl·i·est.

    • : tending to sprawl; straggly: The colt's legs were long and sprawly.

Examples

  • They were all in the same sprawly handwriting of a woman—a woman who simply signed herself "Mittie."

  • It is in a small, cramped hand, and you know the one purporting to be from him later was in a big, sprawly hand.

  • A bee flew in at the door, lighted on the lace curtain and clung there, making sprawly motions with his thread-like legs.

  • Ordinary sort of writing, rather unformed and sprawly, but after a trial run Micky managed a very presentable copy of it.

  • The ants led him to a tiny hole with a finely pulverized rim just at the edge of a sprawly cactus.