单词 | eurybathic |
释义 | eurybathic in British English (ˌjʊərɪˈbæθɪk) adjective zoology (of an aquatic organism) able to live at different depths eurybathic in American English (ˌjurəˈbæθɪk, ˌjɜːr-) adjective Ecology of or pertaining to marine or freshwater life that can tolerate a wide range of depths (opposed to stenobathic) Word origin [1900–05; eury- + Gk báth(os) depth + -ic]This word is first recorded in the period 1900–05. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: cathode-ray tube, desensitize, geopolitics, hormone, hydroplane-ic is a suffix forming adjectives from other parts of speech, occurring originally inGreek and Latin loanwords (metallic; poetic; archaic; public) and, on this model, used as an adjective-forming suffix with the particular senses“having some characteristics of” (opposed to the simple attributive use of the basenoun) (balletic; sophomoric); “in the style of” (Byronic; Miltonic); “pertaining to a family of peoples or languages” (Finnic; Semitic; Turkic) |
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