| 释义 |
nodous, a.|ˈnəʊdəs|
[ad. L. nōdōs-us: see node n. and -ous.]
Full of knots, knotty.
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. 183 This [finger] is seldome or last of all affected with the Gout, and when that becometh nodous, men continue not long after. 1679Evelyn Sylva xxxi. (ed. 3) 201 The nodous, and knotty part of these sort of Trees. 1709Steele Tatler No. 36 ⁋4 He has not a Bone sound, but a Thousand nodous Parts for which the Anatomist have not Words. 1835–6Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Phys. I. 611/2 At the nodous parts of the tube were slight vortices in the current. |