on eggshells, recount, woolly, flocculent, wild and woolly

Eggshells dating to 18,000 years ago suggest that people on New Guinea may have been raising cassowary chicks.

可追溯到 18,000 年前的蛋殼表明，新幾內亞的人們可能一直在飼養食火雞。google translate

 Scientists Just Found a Woolly Mammoth That Still Had Liquid Blood

Bookshelf: Sleep
By SARAH HARRISON SMITH
"Lena's Sleep Sheep," Anita Lobel's book about a little girl helped to sleep by some woolly thinkers, and more.




How the rhino got its wool?
 
Iran to Recount Some Votes

Iran's Guardian Council said it is prepared to recount disputed ballot boxes, as state media reported that seven people died in election-related protests a day earlier.

"I was always on eggshells when friends and family came to stay in case someone wandered into John's room and saw him," she said, adding that he would often take walks disguised in a woolly hat and faking a limp.

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wild and woolly

uncouth in appearance or behaviour: the Australian outlaw’s wild and woolly look he might have been a gunman in his wild and woolly youth

recount (DESCRIBE) Show phonetics
verb [T] FORMAL
to describe how something happened; to tell a story:
He recounted his adventures since he had left home.
[+ question word] He was fond of recounting how he had played for Manchester United when he was 19.


re-count (COUNT AGAIN) Show phonetics
verb [T]
to count something again

recount Show phonetics
noun [C]
another count, especially of the number of votes in an election:
The Democrats demanded a recount but still lost by a few votes.
The noun eggshell has one meaning:
Meaning #1: the exterior covering of a bird's egg
Synonym: shell

卵のから; 壊れやすいもの.
egg・shell china　薄手焼陶器.
egg・shell paint　半つや消しペンキ.

woolly

Syllabification: (wool·ly)

Pronunciation: /ˈwo͝olē/

(also wooly)

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adjective (woollier, woolliest)

• 1made of wool:a red woolly hat
• (of an animal, plant, or part) bearing or naturally covered with wool or hair resembling wool.
• resembling wool in texture or appearance:woolly wisps of cloud

• 2vague or confused in expression or character:woolly thinking
• (of a sound) indistinct or distorted:an opaque and woolly recording

noun (plural woollies)

• 1 (usually woollies) informal, chiefly British a garment made of wool, especially a pullover.

• 2a sheep.

Derivatives

woolliness

noun

flocculent

Line breaks: floc¦cu|lent

Pronunciation: /ˈflɒkjʊl(ə)nt 

  

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ADJECTIVE

1Having or resembling tufts of wool:the first snows of winter lay thick and flocculent

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1.1Having a loosely clumped texture:a brown flocculent precipitate

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Derivatives

flocculence

NOUN

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Origin

early 19th century: from Latin floccus 'tuft of wool' + -ulent.