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Definition of Shunners
1. shunner [n] - See also: shunner
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shunners
Literary usage of Shunners
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Elements of Zoology: To Accompany the Field and Laboratory Study of Animals by Charles Benedict Davenport, Gertrude Anna Crotty Davenport (1911)
"... know best are those that are active in the daytime since we ourselves are most
active at that time. But many FIG. 94. — A colony of light-shunners under ..."
2. Dictionary of Scientific Illustrations and Symbols: Moral Truths Mirrored in (1894)
"Insects are all light-shunners. Even those which, like the bee, labor during the
daytime, prefer the shades of obscurity. The children of light are like the ..."
3. Publications by English Dialect Society (1880)
"shunners, sb. pi. cinders. Shut, sb. a shutter. Si, sb. a dressmaker's term for
the part of a dress between the armpit and chest. Sib, adj. related by blood ..."
4. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1910)
"In the first place, they distinguish between the work-seekers and the work-shunners.
In most ' The average size of the forms throughout the whole of ..."
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