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单词 impaler
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impalern.

/ɪmˈpeɪlə/
Forms: In 1600s–1700s em-.
Etymology: < impale v. + -er suffix1.
One who or that which impales; applied by Grew to each of the calyx-leaves or sepals of a simple flower, and the bracts or phyllaries of a composite (cf. impalement n. 2).
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the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > flower or part containing reproductive organs > [noun] > parts of > calyx > sepal(s)
five brothers (of the rose)1578
supporter1626
impaler1672
pale1682
leaflet1785
sepal1829
the world > life > death > killing > massacrer or slaughterer > [noun] > killer with sharp instrument
sworder1594
sabrer1831
impaler1969
society > authority > punishment > torture > [noun] > impaling or picketing > one who impales
impaler1969
1672 N. Grew Anat. Veg. v. 129 Each Empaler..being as another little Leaf.
1672 N. Grew Anat. Veg. v. 130 The continuation of all the three aforesaid Parts into each Empaler, is discoverable, I think, no where better than in an Artichoke, which is a true Flower, and whose Empalers are of that amplitude, as fairly to shew them all.
1969 New Yorker 6 Sept. 106/2 Ceauçescu..probably the most popular Rumanian national leader since Vlad IV, called the Impaler, who successfully fought the Turks in the mid-fifteenth century.
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