mile-a-minute

短语

词形变化

mile-a-minutes 复数

别名

mile a minute

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Any of several species of fast-growing plants, some of which are extremely invasive outside their native range and undesirable.

    Asiatic tearthumb, kudzu of the North (Persicaria perfoliata), native to eastern Asia, introduced to northeastern US.

  2. 2.

    Any of several species of fast-growing plants, some of which are extremely invasive outside their native range and undesirable.

    Kudzu (Pueraria lobata; Pueraria montana var. lobata), native to eastern Asia, highly invasive elsewhere.

  3. 3.

    Any of several species of fast-growing plants, some of which are extremely invasive outside their native range and undesirable.

    mile-a-minute vine (Ipomoea cairica), native from tropical Africa to the Mediterranean, invasive elsewhere.

  4. 4.

    Any of several species of fast-growing plants, some of which are extremely invasive outside their native range and undesirable.

    Mikania micrantha, native to the tropical and subtropical Americas.

  5. 5.

    Any of several species of fast-growing plants, some of which are extremely invasive outside their native range and undesirable.

    Russian vine (Fallopia baldschuanica), native to central Asia, widely naturalized.

  6. 6.

    Any of several species of fast-growing plants, some of which are extremely invasive outside their native range and undesirable.

    Okie bean (Dipogon lignosus), native to South Africa, introduced elsewhere.

adj.
  1. 1.

    At the rate of one mile per minute; sixty miles per hour.

adv.
  1. 1.

    Very fast.

    习语 非正式

    He was all excited after the game, talking a mile-a-minute about the last-second shot.