单词 | ephippium |
释义 | ephippium[ ih-fip-ee-uhm ] / ɪˈfɪp i əm / noun, plural e·phip·pi·a [ih-fip-ee-uh]. /ɪˈfɪp i ə/. Zoology.a thick shell, consisting of two chitinous plates, that encloses and protects the winter eggs of a cladoceran. Origin of ephippium1835–45; <New Latin <Greek ephíppion, noun use of neuter of ephíppios for putting on a horse, equivalent to ep-ep- + hípp(os) horse + -ios adj. suffix OTHER WORDS FROM ephippiume·phip·pi·al, adjectiveWords nearby ephippiumephemeropteran, ephemerous, Ephesian, Ephesians, Ephesus, ephippium, ephod, ephor, Ephraim, Ephraimite, Ephrata Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for ephippium
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