单词 | cataphract |
释义 | cataphract[ kat-uh-frakt ] / ˈkæt əˌfrækt / nouna heavily armed war galley of ancient Greece. a suit of ancient Roman scale armor for a man or horse. Zoology. the bony plates or scales covering the body of certain fishes or reptiles. Origin of cataphract1575–85; <Latin cataphractus fully armored <Greek katáphraktos (akin to kataphrássein to clothe fully in armor), equivalent to kata-cata- + phraktós fenced, protectively clothed (phrag- fence + -tos verbal adjective suffix) OTHER WORDS FROM cataphractcat·a·phrac·tic, adjectiveWords nearby cataphractCatanzaro, cataphasia, cataphasis, cataphora, cataphoresis, cataphract, cataphracted, cataphylaxis, cataphyll, cataplane, cataplasia Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for cataphract
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