英语词汇“sarsen”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

sar·sen

(särsən′)

One of several large masses of silicified sandstone or conglomerate found on or near the ground surface in England and Brittany and believed to be the erosional remains of a sedimentary bed deposited during the Tertiary Period. These masses were used by Neolithic peoples as monoliths.

[Short for Sarsen stone, from Early Modern English Sarsen, variant of Saracen, Saracen, heathen, pagan (perhaps in reference to the use of sarsens in ancient monuments); see SARACEN.]

单词	sarsen
释义	sar·sen (särsən′) n. One of several large masses of silicified sandstone or conglomerate found on or near the ground surface in England and Brittany and believed to be the erosional remains of a sedimentary bed deposited during the Tertiary Period. These masses were used by Neolithic peoples as monoliths. [Short for Sarsen stone, from Early Modern English Sarsen, variant of Saracen, Saracen, heathen, pagan (perhaps in reference to the use of sarsens in ancient monuments); see SARACEN.]
随便看	phraseologist phraseology phrasing phratric phratry phreak phreaker phreatic phreatophyte phreatophytic phren- phren- phrenetic phrenetic phrenetical phrenetical -phrenia phrenic phrenitic phrenitis phreno- phrenologic phrenological phrenologist phrenology