| 释义 |
merop, a. nonce-wd.|ˈmɛrɒp|
[a. Gr. µεροπ-, µέροψ speaking articulately.]
Gifted with the power of speech. So meˈropic a. (in same sense).
1854Badham Halieut. 224 Mute creatures [seem] as capable of jealousy and resentment as loud-tongued meropic man! 1864Blackmore Clara Vaughan (1889) 172 He has no tongue, no merop tongue, I mean. |