单词 | desquamate |
释义 | desquamatev.ΚΠ 1740 W. Pardon Dyche's New Gen. Eng. Dict. (ed. 3) Desquamate, to scrape off the fins from fish; and in Surgery, to scale off the corrupt or shatter'd part of bones. 2. intransitive. To come off in the form of scales; to scale off, exfoliate, ‘peel’. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > uncovering > become uncovered [verb (intransitive)] > be lost as an outer layer > in scales scale1529 flake1760 desquamate1828 1828 G. Combe Constit. Man (1835) iii. 99 As anatomists call it, desquamating; by which they mean, that the cuticle..comes off in squamæ or scales. 1876 T. Bryant Pract. Surg. (ed. 2) I. i. 53 The cuticle always desquamates. Derivatives ˈdesquamated adj. scaled off; freed from scales or cuticle, peeled. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > uncovering > [adjective] > not covered by or as by other specific covering unwoolled1538 unhoused1564 unleaded1586 uncanopied1613 unplanked1648 unarched1658 unpavilioned1775 unpapered1778 undraperied1802 unnetted1832 undamasked1838 matless1839 unpuddled1842 desquamated1845–6 sodlessa1847 unbaized1853 blanketless1863 unhooded1868 1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Desquamated, scaled, having the Scales taken off. 1845–6 G. E. Day tr. J. F. Simon Animal Chem. II. 107 Piutti removed all the desquamated cuticle. 1884 F. O. Bower & D. H. Scott tr. H. A. de Bary Compar. Anat. Phanerogams & Ferns 556 They traverse and support each desquamated zone surrounding the periphery of the stem. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1727 |
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