| 单词 | spermous |
| 释义 | spermous in British English 1 (ˈspɜːməs) adjective another word for spermatic spermous in British English 1 (ˈspɜːməs) adjective of or relating to the sperm whale or its products spermous in American English (ˈspɜrməs) adjective of or like sperm -spermous in American English (ˈspɜrməs) having (a specified number or kind of) seed monospermous spermous in American English (ˈspɜːrməs) adjective of the nature of or pertaining to sperm Word origin [1815–25; sperm1 + -ous]This word is first recorded in the period 1815–25. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: artifact, coupon, pullout, reamer, welterweight-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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