| 单词 | chaffy |
| 例句 | He nubbed the ears—shelling off the small, chaffy kernels at their tips. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Sori short, of few rather large sporangia, placed near the tips of the veins; under surface of the frond usually either chaffy, woolly, or powdery. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z The broken coat of the seed of wheat, rye, or other cereal grain, separated from the flour or meal by sifting or bolting; the coarse, chaffy part of ground grain. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z Stem.—Simple; a foot or so high; bearing at summit a crown of large leaves, mixed with many dry, chaffy, persistent bracts. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z In Compositae besides the involucre there are frequently chaffy and setose bracts at the base of each flower, and in Dipsacaceae a membranous tube surrounds each flower. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" 2011-04-03T02:00:20.883Z Yes; but words are only words after all, and if they are light and chaffy, they don’t grow like good grain. The Parson O' Dumford Fronds of small size, 1–4-pinnate, the lower surface almost always either hairy, tomentose, chaffy, or covered with a fine waxy white or yellow powder. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z I can easily imagine that certain chaffy people may put their disrespect on you for what I consider your praise. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Involucre.—Double; the outer part of several loose, leafy scales; the inner of eight to twelve, erect, more chaffy ones. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z Or chaffy grain beneath the thresher's flail: And mid these dancing rocks at once and ever It flung up momently the sacred river. The Golden Treasury Selected from the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language and arranged with Notes Each flower with 6 small chaffy petals 4, in JUNCACEAE, p. The Plants of Michigan Simple Keys for the Identification of the Native Seed Plants of the State July.—Rootstock very slender, creeping; stipes polished, brownish, darker and sparingly chaffy at base. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z Texture.—Succulent, fleshy; scarious, dry and chaffy; punctate, having translucent glands, so that the leaf appears, when held toward the light, as though full of holes; membranous, thin, soft, and rather translucent; thick, thin, etc. Trees of the Northern United States Their Study, Description and Determination The seed is very light and chaffy, and weighs only fourteen pounds to the bushel, and the amount sown varies from five to seven pounds to the acre. Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 4, January 26, 1884 A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside Beginning to note down the absurdities and non sequiturs in Mr. Fuster's article, he found himself writing a very chaffy letter to The Twaddler. The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 2, May, 1851 Petals none; each flower in the axil of a single chaffy bract 2a, in CYPERACEAE, p. The Plants of Michigan Simple Keys for the Identification of the Native Seed Plants of the State July.—A stately fern, often 4° high, the fronds growing in a circle from a stout ascending chaffy rootstock, and decaying in autumn. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z The words of praise he gives his memory are like golden grains amid the chaffy verbiage with which he defends himself. The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851 The travellers were all chatty, many of them chaffy. Mystic London: or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis Nut kernels that are poorly filled are often hollow, shrunken, shriveled, and chaffy. Northern Nut Growers Association Incorporated 39th Annual Report at Norris, Tenn. September 13-15 1948 Plants with leaves of various widths, but the flowers petaloid, i. e., with a white or colored, more or less conspicuous perianth, and never chaffy in texture. The Plants of Michigan Simple Keys for the Identification of the Native Seed Plants of the State July.—Stipes and the stout creeping rootstock bearing broad and deciduous chaffy scales. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z I think I heard of some little chaffy matter between him and you, but, doubtless, you have virtually forgotten all about it. Recollections of Dante Gabriel Rossetti “Hang it all! what a mess my uniform is in with this chaffy straw!” In the King's Name The Cruise of the "Kestrel" By a subtle system of intellectual buccaneering this reserved Englishman winnows from much chaffy verbiage the real seeds of thought. Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898 Flowers small and inconspicuous, the perianth none or greenish or chaffy, and never petal-like in appearance — 50. 4b. The Plants of Michigan Simple Keys for the Identification of the Native Seed Plants of the State Pistils 3–8, stipitate; seeds flattened laterally, covered with chaffy scales, in one row in the membranaceous pods; style awl-shaped; stigma minute. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z To these meetings anyone might come and listen to the preachers' message, which 'threshed them like grain, and sifted the wheat from the "light chaffy minds" among the hearers.' A Book of Quaker Saints Hops, such as come into the market, are the chaffy capsules of the seeds, and turn brown early in the autumn. Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure Corn-meal must be thoroughly scalded with boiling water when making any kind of corn bread in order to have the bread soft and not dry and "chaffy." On the Trail An Outdoor Book for Girls Grasses, with linear or narrow sheathing leaves, and very small flowers without perianth in the axils of chaffy bracts, appearing in late spring and summer. The Plants of Michigan Simple Keys for the Identification of the Native Seed Plants of the State Flowers in the axils of chaffy scales or glumes arranged in spikes or spikelets, without evident perianth; stamens 1–3; ovary 1-celled, 1-seeded; seed albuminous. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z How 'chaffy' and frivolous this gay world of London appeared to these first Publishers, consumed with the burning eagerness of their mission, the following description shows. A Book of Quaker Saints Moldy, chaffy, grains and weed seeds may be cheaper to buy than sweet, sound materials, but the latter are cheaper to feed. Pratt's Practical Pointers on the Care of Livestock and Poultry By the side of it a man was setting out on an eating-stand a half-eaten ham, chaffy rolls and pies yellow with age. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 28, July, 1873 These consist typically of a short axis, the rachilla, almost or quite concealed by several chaffy bracts. The Plants of Michigan Simple Keys for the Identification of the Native Seed Plants of the State A monstrous form occurs in Maine, having a chaffy receptacle and the flowers turned to tufts of chaffy paleæ. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z But they was hypocrites and he a very light chaffy man, and the way was too strait for him.'—G. A Book of Quaker Saints Simple ferns with stipes articulated to the creeping rootstocks, which are covered with brown, chaffy scales. The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada Dry, chaffy, or prickly plants, corresponding in their nature to the aridity and asperity of the land, were peculiarly at home upon the undulating stoniness. Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine Bracts of the involucre green or colored, but never dry and chaffy — 90. 79a. The Plants of Michigan Simple Keys for the Identification of the Native Seed Plants of the State Pappus very deciduous, of 2 thin chaffy scales on the principal angles, and sometimes 2 or more small intermediate scales.—Coarse and stout herbs, with solitary or corymbed heads, and yellow rays; flowering toward autumn. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z The wild rice is not the least like the rice which your ladyship has eaten; it is thin, and covered with a light chaffy husk. In the Forest Or, pictures of life and scenery in the woods of Canada Mostly small, rock-loving plants, usually rather chaffy, at least at the base, and growing in tufts. The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada By the end of this month, most of the species had ripened their seeds, but undecayed, still seemed to be in bloom from the numerous corolla-like involucres and whorls of chaffy scales of the composite. The Mountains of California The wild rice is not the least like the rice which your ladyship has eaten; it is thin and covered with a light chaffy husk. Lady Mary and her Nurse Rootstocks creeping, branched, often covered with chaffy scales, bearing scattered roundish knobs, to which the stipes are attached by a distinct articulation. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z Suppressing his name, he says that such a rhetorician was like barley bread 910 compared to a wheaten loaf,—windy, chaffy, and coarse. The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete It went to my heart to oppose her in any wish; and also this kind of chaffy opposition might pain her. The Lady of the Shroud Pappus a circle of thin chaffy scales or short chaffy bristles. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z Roughish, especially the leaves, which are disposed to be less narrowly pointed, the upper sometimes entire; rays broadly oblong to linear or oblanceolate; pappus coroniform and chaffy or of 2 or 3 conspicuous teeth. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z Pappus double, the inner capillary, the outer of minute chaffy bristles. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z Pappus none, or a cup or crown, or of 2 or 3 awns, teeth, or chaffy scales corresponding with the edges or angles of the achene, often with intervening minute bristles or scales. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z Receptacle flat, not chaffy, but beset with short chaffy bristles. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z Pappus a row of chaffy scales dissected into many bristles. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z Achenes striate; pappus of numerous small chaffy scales, forming a short crown.—Branching perennials, with deep roots; the sessile heads 2 or 3 together, axillary and terminal. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z Receptacle elongated and bearing broad chaff among the flowers 29, 30 Receptacle convex, chaffy. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z The outer pappus of very small chaffy bristles, much shorter than the inner of copious capillary bristles. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z Pappus none, or a crown or cup, or of one or two chaffy awns, never capillary, nor of several uniform chaffy scales.—Leaves more commonly opposite. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z Achenes obovoid or oblong, attached obliquely at or near the base; pappus setose or partly chaffy or none.—Herbs with alternate leaves and single heads. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z |
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