a. 腐蚀性的;苛性的;刻薄的;焦散的 (caustic的变形)
a. Capable of destroying the texture of anything or eating
away its substance by chemical action; burning; corrosive; searing.
a. Severe; satirical; sharp; as, a caustic remark.

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学英语单词
-organized
a-bolt
abortion ratio
abu mombasi (abumombazi)
Alan Hodgkin
alive to
alveolarisation
arteriosclerotic cardiopathy
as dry as sawdust
audio-aid
binary coder
body assistance
bonnevilles
box wagon
cable-layings
carex breviculmis r. br. var. royleana kuek.
centrifugences
clearance loss
close coupled rudder
combined sine-wave signal
cooling circulating water
crawling peg
cytotrophoblasts
dickin' ya
dielectric dissipation
diphenylhexatrienes
Donskoy
doppelbocks
draw bar pull dynamometer
dyed shirting
eight-colour printing machine
embarkee
emergency alert
eprix
feline infectious peritonitis
finishing-roll
fore-reef complex
free burning
guaranteed scheduling
hartridge smoke unit
horizontal hand resaw
hoswell
ingine
isochromatic property
isotope lamp
issac
jam filler
jaups
Jiaqing
kandels
Kashiwa
laypeoples
line test trunk
linear coupler
link access attribute
load force
Lysimachia pittosporoides
marsh pinks
mkg
Moutohora I.
mucodermal
municipal tax
myeloarchitecturally
narmer
nonrepulsive
nonsyntaxins
operating threshold
operational chart
outskating
part timer
Pipola
pitch arc
premultiplier
production loss
programmed roll
Protogenea
pullow
radiation signs
radio navigational warning
really something
salariats
schaebers
see someone further
settling area
single V-groove
solid fission products
straight gyrus
succedane
supercritical steam pressure
tetraisopropylbenzene
unit's order
unphysicked
unstable inverse filter
unwitch
value axis
vena striata
vouched for
walkaround money
warehouse operation
warrander
wedge lines
wilmore