Hottentot_bread | (n) thick edible rootstock of elephant's-foot, Syn. Hottentot's bread, Hottentot bread | Hottentot_fig | (n) low-growing South African succulent plant having a capsular fruit containing edible pulp, Syn. Carpobrotus edulis, sour fig, Hottentot fig, Mesembryanthemum edule, Hottentot's fig | elephant's-foot | (n) South African vine having a massive rootstock covered with deeply fissured bark, Syn. Hottentot's bread vine, tortoise plant, Hottentot bread vine, Dioscorea elephantipes | Khoikhoin | (n) any of the Khoisan languages spoken by the pastoral people of Namibia and South Africa, Syn. Khoikhoi, Hottentot |
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Blood-shotten | a. Bloodshot. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ] | Hottentot | n. [ D. Hottentot; -- so called from hot and tot, two syllables of frequent occurrence in their language. Wedgwood. ] 1. (Ethnol.) One of a degraded and savage race of South Africa, with yellowish brown complexion, high cheek bones, and wooly hair growing in tufts. [ 1913 Webster ] 2. The language of the Hottentots, which is remarkable for its clicking sounds; the Khoisan language. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ] Hottentot cherry (Bot.), a South African plant of the genus Cassine (Cassine maurocenia), having handsome foliage, with generally inconspicuous white or green flowers. Loudon. -- Hottentot's bread. (Bot.) See Elephant's foot (a), under Elephant. [ 1913 Webster ] | Hottentotism | n. A term employed to describe one of the varieties of stammering. Tylor. [ 1913 Webster ] | Nook-shotten | a. Full of nooks, angles, or corners. [ Obs. or Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ] That nook-shotten isle of Albion. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ] | Shotted | a. 1. Loaded with shot. [ 1913 Webster ] 2. (Med.) Having a shot attached; as, a shotten suture. [ 1913 Webster ] | Shotten | n. [ Properly p. p. of shoot; AS. scoten, sceoten, p. p. of sceótan. ] 1. Having ejected the spawn; as, a shotten herring. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ] 2. Shot out of its socket; dislocated, as a bone. [ 1913 Webster ] | Shoulder-shotten | a. Sprained in the shoulder, as a horse. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ] |
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伏 | [fú, ㄈㄨˊ, 伏] to lean over; to fall (go down); to hide (in ambush); to conceal oneself; to lie low; hottest days of summer; to submit; to concede defeat; to overcome; to subdue; volt; surname Fu #6,890 [Add to Longdo] | 热岛 | [rè dǎo, ㄖㄜˋ ㄉㄠˇ, 热 岛 / 熱 島] heat island (i.e. large city centers are hotter) #66,082 [Add to Longdo] | 三伏 | [sān fú, ㄙㄢ ㄈㄨˊ, 三 伏] three periods forming the hottest periods of summer, from mid-July to mid-August, namely 初伏 (mid-July), 中伏 (late July to early August), 末伏 (mid-August) #69,729 [Add to Longdo] | 中伏 | [zhōng fú, ㄓㄨㄥ ㄈㄨˊ, 中 伏] last ten days of July and first ten days of August, the second of 三伏 sān fú, three hottest periods of the year #85,730 [Add to Longdo] | 初伏 | [chū fú, ㄔㄨ ㄈㄨˊ, 初 伏] middle ten days of July, the first of 三伏 sān fú, three hottest periods of the year #167,063 [Add to Longdo] | 出伏 | [chū fú, ㄔㄨ ㄈㄨˊ, 出 伏] end of 三伏 sān fú, the hottest period of the year #167,975 [Add to Longdo] | 末伏 | [mò fú, ㄇㄛˋ ㄈㄨˊ, 末 伏] middle ten days of August, the last of 三伏 sān fú, three hottest periods of the year #174,956 [Add to Longdo] | 二伏 | [èr fú, ㄦˋ ㄈㄨˊ, 二 伏] same as 中伏, last ten days of July and first ten days of August, the second of 三伏 sān fú, three hottest periods of the year [Add to Longdo] | 城市热岛 | [chéng shì rè dǎo, ㄔㄥˊ ㄕˋ ㄖㄜˋ ㄉㄠˇ, 城 市 热 岛 / 城 市 熱 島] city heat island (i.e. large city centers are hotter) [Add to Longdo] | 热岛效应 | [rè dǎo xiào yìng, ㄖㄜˋ ㄉㄠˇ ㄒㄧㄠˋ ㄧㄥˋ, 热 岛 效 应 / 熱 島 效 應] heat island effect (i.e. large city centers are hotter) [Add to Longdo] |
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