| 单词 | asteroidean |
| 释义 | asteroidean in British English (ˌæstəˈrɔɪdɪən) noun another name for asteroid (sense 2) asteroid in British English (ˈæstəˌrɔɪd) noun 1. Also called: minor planet, planetoid any of numerous small celestial bodies that move around the sun mainly between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. Their diameters range from 930 kilometres (Ceres) to less than one kilometre 2. Also called: asteroidean (ˌæstəˈrɔɪdɪən) any echinoderm of the class Asteroidea; a starfish adjective also: asteroidal (ˌæstəˈrɔɪdəl) 3. of, relating to, or belonging to the class Asteroidea 4. shaped like a star Word origin C19: from Greek asteroeidēs starlike, from astēr a starasteroidean in American English (ˌæstəˈrɔidiən) noun 1. an echinoderm of the class Asteroidea, comprising the starfishes adjective 2. belonging or pertaining to the Asteroidea Word origin [asteroide(a) + -an]-an is a suffix occurring originally in adjectives borrowed from Latin, formed from nounsdenoting places (Roman; urban) or persons (Augustan), and now productively forming English adjectives by extension of the Latin pattern.Attached to geographical names, it denotes provenance or membership (American; Chicagoan), the latter sense now extended to membership in social classes, religious denominations,etc., in adjectives formed from various kinds of noun bases (Episcopalian; pedestrian; Puritan; Republican) and membership in zoological taxa (acanthocephalan; crustacean). Attached to personal names, it has the additional senses “contemporary with” (Elizabethan; Jacobean) or “proponent of” (Hegelian; Freudian) the person specified by the noun base. It also occurs in a set of personal nouns,mainly loanwords from French, denoting one who engages in, practices, or works withthe referent of the base noun (comedian; grammarian; historian; theologian) |
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