单词 | cotyle |
释义 | cotylen. 1. Ancient Greek History. See quots. Also kotyle. ΚΠ 1707 J. Floyer Physician's Pulse-watch 281 Galen Bleeds Youth of fourteen Years one Cotyla, that is, ten Ounces. 1857 S. Birch Hist. Anc. Pottery (1858) II. 96 The cotyle, or cotylos, is supposed to have been a deep cup..It was also a measure of liquid capacity. 1926 C. Day Lewis in Oxf. Poetry 18 (title) Naked woman with kotyle. 1948 A. Lane Greek Pottery iv. 26 Kotyle, painted in brown-black on greenish buff clay. 2. Anatomy and Zoology. a. The acetabulum or socket of the hip-joint; also the coxal cavity in insects. ΚΠ 1882 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Cotyle, the acetabulum, or socket of the hip-joint. b. One of the cup-shaped suckers on the ‘arms’ of cephalopods, or on the heads of leeches, trematoid worms, etc. ΚΠ 1882 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Cotyle, a cup-shaped organ, of which there are many, on the arm of Cephalopoda, by which the animal attaches itself. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < n.1707 |
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