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- a small, rounded, compressed mass of a substance颗粒状物; 小团; 丸：
fish food pellets.
丸状鱼食。
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- a piece of small shot or other lightweight bullet小子弹, 小弹丸; 轻型子弹。
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- Ornithology a small mass of bones and feathers regurgitated by a bird of prey or other bird【鸟】（猛禽等的）颗粒状呕吐物, 吐弃块。
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- a small round piece of animal faeces, especially from a rabbit or rodent（尤指兔子或啮齿类动物的）颗粒状粪便。
(pelleted, pelleting)with obj.
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- form or shape (a substance, especially animal food) into pellets使（动物的食物）形成小团。
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- hit with or as though with pellets用子弹打; 像用子弹一样打：
the last drops of rain were pelleting the windshield.
最后一阵雨滴像子弹一样打在挡风玻璃上。
词源
late Middle English: from Old French pelote 'metal ball', from a diminutive of Latin pila 'ball'.