音标:[ә'kænθәsiәs] ;
具刺的, 棘皮的, 有棘的
a. Armed with prickles, as a plant.
a. Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the family of
plants of which the acanthus is the type.

VOICE ONE: I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: Colorful fish at Danger Reef And I'm Barbara Klein with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Today we explore the clear blue waters around the islands of the Bahamas to learn about the exciting sport of scuba d

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学英语单词
a world of good
achieved availability
advertising colour
airbill
all such
apolitically
baby's wear
bicylinder
bodybuilding
book hands
Bowley
brain worker
cabe
catboater
ceremony of nakumdoit (n. australia)
circular point
coatlique
condition monitor of main engine
control computer subsystem
cricoid cartilage
danser
death panels
decontamination sink
deluge of questions
desmochondria
dibasicity
direct arc
distance thermometre
domestic life
eczema capitis
effeminizes
electrical parameters of a television system
encode video information
epsilonic
Eurya muricata
fabric shock test
fainstein
first short period
fistulizations
fle
flurithromycin
foam rubber products
fooey
fork turck
fug
Gagnef
gaveler
grand mal seizure
Grove, Pen.del
hospitalization premiums
I know just how it is.
iceless
in ground effect
inconveniency
indianait
infectious keratoconjunctivitis
initial beating-up period
input service
interchain specific heat
intermediate entry
ion capture theory
Kansuella
Kelloggia chinensis
kington
la vista
lens-like
limit of liability
magnetic associative memory
Martinique rose
maximal oxygen consumption
mercury-vapo(u)r lamp
metapodosoma
methylthioethylchloride
mutter away
natural mother
non-medicinal
operation time coefficient
permanent distortion
philosopher-kings
private savings
pro-attitude
puts his foot in his mouth
quendale
registered mail by air
rzpowder
samarous chloride
sculduddery
singe sb.'s beard
single-span
soft docking
Teignmouth
the spiritual beings
thiodipropionate distearyl
three-factor cross
thymus dependent cell
underwater laser device
untalkative
vertical shift factor
vife
vurzh
wahtar
whannels