| 释义 |
eˈsquillous, a. rare.
[ad. Fr. esquilleux, f. esquille ‘small fragment of a fractured bone’ (Littré).]
Of fracture: Splintery.
1853Th. Ross Humboldt's Trav. III. xxix. 168 The serpentine is sometimes of an esquillous, sometimes of a conchoidal fracture. |