landscraper

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A building with a very large horizontal footprint; a horizontal megastructure.
    — But the super structure already has been panned by local author and architectural critic James Howard Kunstler, who has called the building a "landscraper" the size of an aircraft carrier, and compared it unfavorably to a "gigantic brick Yule log" and Darth Vader's mask.
  2. A piece of heavy equipment used to move earth.
    — "We caught them using a lot of heavy equipment — big landscrapers were moving out tons of dirt," said Marlene Stephens, of Don't Waste Arizona, a coalition of Arizona environmental groups fighting the toxic waste complex.
  3. A gardener or gardener. nonstandard
    — "I loved flowers, too, and grew up in a garden, but it didn't make me single-minded or a landscraper. . . ."

词形变化

landscrapers plural landscrapers plural

词源

词源 1
From land + -scraper.
词源 2
Compound of land + scraper.
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