| 单词 | endocrinous |
| 释义 | endocrinous in British English (ɛnˈdɒkrɪnəs) adjective another name for endocrinal endocrinal in British English (ˌɛndəʊˈkraɪnəl), endocrinic (ˌɛndəʊˈkrɪnɪk), endocrinous (ɛnˈdɒkrɪnəs) or endocritic (ˌɛndəʊˈkrɪtɪk) adjective relating to endocrine glands or their secretions endocrinous in American English (enˈdɑkrənəs) adjective endocrine Word origin [1910–15; endocrine + -ous]This word is first recorded in the period 1910–15. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: carbon cycle, functionalism, insulin, radio, zing-ous is a suffix forming adjectives that have the general sense “possessing, full of”a given quality (covetous; glorious; nervous; wondrous); -ous and its variant -ious have often been used to Anglicize Latin adjectives with terminations that cannotbe directly adapted into English (atrocious; contiguous; garrulous; obvious; stupendous). As an adjective-forming suffix of neutral value, it regularly Anglicizes Greekand Latin adjectives derived without suffix from nouns and verbs; many such formationsare productive combining forms in English, sometimes with a corresponding nominalcombining form that has no suffix (as -fer and -ferous; -phore and -phorous; -pter and -pterous; -vore and -vorous) |
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