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草木

cǎo mù

2-character word

What 草木 means

1. vegetation
2. plants

The characters in 草木

• 草cǎograss; straw; manuscript
• 木mù(bound form) tree; (bound form) wood; unresponsive; numb; wooden

Example sentences

• 草木皆兵。
  Every bush and tree looks like an enemy.
• 在一个晴朗的十月天，奈尼湖在午后阳光下波光粼粼，船夫划桨载着游客穿过这片山区度假胜地最核心的景观，草木繁茂、松林复盖的喜马拉雅山峰将其包围。
  On a clear October day, Naini Lake shimmers in the afternoon sun as boatmen row tourists across the hill resort’s prime attraction nestled amid lush, pine-clothed Himalayan peaks.

Words starting with 草木

• 草木灰cǎo mù huīplant ash
• 草木鸟兽cǎo mù niǎo shòuflora and fauna
• 草木皆兵cǎo mù jiē bīnglit. every tree or bush an enemy soldier (idiom); fig. to panic and treat everyone as an…

Words containing 草木

• 人生一世，草木一春rén shēng yī shì , cǎo mù yī chūnMan has but one life, grass but one spring (idiom). fig. the brevity of human existence