| 单词 | venus's girdle |
| 释义 | > as lemmasVenus's girdle Venus's girdle n. (see quots.). ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > divination by natural phenomena > palmistry > [noun] > mark on the hand > semicircular mark Venus's girdle1653 the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Diploblastica > phylum Coelenterata > [noun] > class Ctenophora > class Tentacula > member of genus Cestus Venus's girdle1870 1653 R. Saunders Physiognomie i. 49 Venus Girdle..is a Semicircle that begins between the fore-finger and the middle finger, and ends between the fourth finger and the little one. 1870 H. A. Nicholson Man. Zool. I. xvi. 114 In Cestum, or Venus' Girdle, ‘elongation takes place to an extraordinary extent’. 1896 J. W. Kirkaldy & E. C. Pollard tr. J. E. V. Boas Text Bk. Zool. 118 Cestus veneris (Venus's girdle), with body much compressed and elongated to a ligamentous form. < as lemmas |
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