describing
present participle ofdescribe
单词 | describing |
释义 | describing present participle ofdescribe describe verb[T] uk/dɪˈskraɪb/us/dɪˈskraɪb/A2 to say or write what someone or something is like: Could you describeyourattacker? He described thepaintingindetail. [+ question word]Let me describe (toyou)howithappened. She described Garyasshy. formal If you describe ashape, youdrawit ormovein adirectionthatfollowsthelineof it: He usedcompassesto describe acircle. biologyspecialized torecognizeaplantoranimalasbelongingto aparticulartype, and give it ascientificname: Sofar,scientistshave described 15,482marinefishspecies, up from 15,304 ayearago. Thescientificnameformountainlaurelis Kalmia latifolia, from Peter Kalm, an 18th-centurybotanistwho first described thespecies.
Defining & explaining
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