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staghorn

/stag-hawrn/US // ˈstægˌhɔrn //

滞留,滞留的,滞留的人,滞销的

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a piece of a stag's antler, especially when used to form objects, decorations, or the like.
    • : staghorn coral.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : made of or decorated with staghorn: a knife with a staghorn handle.

Examples

  • Burns also wants to study a second staghorn-fern species that appears to grow in colonies.

  • Burns and his coworkers also analyzed the genes in 10 staghorn colonies on Lord Howe Island.

  • You see here the elk or staghorn fern, which grows as a parasite on the palm or the petosperum of New Zealand.

  • Among the captains was rather a fine-looking man, a Captain Staghorn, commanding the Daring frigate.

  • Still, I expected to see Captain Staghorn sitting upright, with his disagreeable companion by his side.

  • Staghorn sumach (Rhus hirta) is of a different species but of the same genus.

  • This is a sub-variety of the Staghorn Endive, and comparatively of recent introduction.

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