meagre
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Danh từ
noun- 1.
An edible fish, of species Argyrosomus regius, of the family Sciaenidae, found from the Black Sea to the eastern Atlantic.
1986, A. Wysokiński, The Living Marine Resources of the Southeast Atlantic, FAO Fisheries Technical Paper 178, page 48, Among more valuable species some of them are worth mentioning, especially littoral forms as: meagres and other croakers (Sciaenidae), grunters (Pomadasyidae), threadfins (Polynemidae), groupers (Serranidae), snappers (Lutjanidae) […] .
Tính từ
adjective- 1.
(Canada, UK, common)Having little flesh; lean; thin.
- 2.
(Canada, UK, common)Deficient or inferior in amount, quality or extent
Nothing will grow in this meagre soil.
He was given a meagre piece of cake that he swallowed in one bite.
Đồng nghĩa: paltry, scanty, inadequate
- 3.
(Canada, UK, common)(set theory) Of a set: such that, considered as a subset of a (usually larger) topological space, it is in a precise sense small or negligible.
- 4.
(Canada, UK, common)(mineralogy) Dry and harsh to the touch (e.g., as chalk).
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verb- 1.
(Canada, UK, common, transitive)To make lean.
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From Middle French maigre.