pincushion

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈpɪnˌkʊʃn̩/

名詞

口語 比喩的用法

(sewing) A device, originally like a small, stuffed cushion, designed to have sewing pins and needles stuck into it to store them safely; some modern pincushions hold the objects magnetically.

日本語の意味

縫い物で使用する道具で、針や小さな針を安全に保管するための小さな綿詰めのクッション（または、近年では磁石で固定されるものもある）

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After finishing the last stitch, he jabbed the used needles into the pincushion and put the sewing kit away.

最後の一針を終えると、彼は使った針を針山に刺して裁縫道具を片付けた。

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意味（1）

(sewing) A device, originally like a small, stuffed cushion, designed to have sewing pins and needles stuck into it to store them safely; some modern pincushions hold the objects magnetically.

Then for womens cloaths, the cabadge of cloath of ſilver, brancht Sattin, and the like, went for pin-cuſhions, pin-pillows, womens purſes; and if black, Church-wardens capes.

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意味（2）

A flowering plant in the genus Leucospermum.

[S]ee how the knowledge of the climate tolerances of one South African shrub, the Saldana pincushion (Leucospermum tomentosum) is integrated with projections of a global circulation model applied to the southern tip of South Africa ….

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意味（3）

A flowering plant in the genus Scabiosa.

Scabiosa, often called mourning bride, pincushion flower, and sweet scabious, is an easily grown, old-fashioned, half-hardy annual. It is very attractive and satisfactory both for cutting and for borders and beds.

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意味（4）

The coral bead plant, coral moss, or English baby tears (Nertera granadensis), an ornamental plant.

意味（5）

The dustymaiden, a flowering plant in the genus Chaenactis.

An abundant wildflower following good winter rains, Fremont pincushion [Chaenactis fremontii] features heads composed entirely of white or pinkish disk flowers.

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意味（6）

The pincushion cactus, of the genera Escobaria or Mammillaria.

Alverson's pincushion cactus (Coryophantha vivipara var. alversonii), under status review by the USF&WS for possible listing as threatened or endangered, is reported to occur the along the northwest boundary of the WSA.

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意味（7）

The pincushionplant, a flowering plant in the genus Navarretia.

Marigold pincushion [Navarretia tagetina], however, is widespread throughout the region except along the coast. … In eastern Sacramento County, it grows together with downy pincushion (Navarretia pubescens) in small clearings in blue oak woodland.

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意味（8）

(figuratively, colloquial) A person who is pricked or stabbed multiple times with sharp objects; specifically, someone who receives regular hypodermic needle injections.

Insulin-dependent diabetics are human pincushions.

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pincushions （ plural ）