| 单词 | cleidoic |
| 释义 | cleidoic in British Englishadjective cleidoic egg cleidoic in American English (klaiˈdouɪk) adjective Embryology isolated from the environment, as certain eggs enclosed within a shell or membrane Word origin [1930–35; ‹ Gk kleido(ûn) to lock up (v. deriv. of kleís (gen. kleidós) bolt, key) + -ic]This word is first recorded in the period 1930–35. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: boondoggle, kickback, preset, saddle stitch, video-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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