cranesbill

n. 老鹳草 [医] 老鹳草, 美牛儿

发音

US /ˈkɹeɪnz.bɪl/
UK

词形变化

cranesbills 复数 cranesbills

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Any flowering plant of the genus Geranium found throughout the temperate zone.

    老鹳草

  2. 2.

    A pair of long-beaked forceps.

词汇关系

名词

上位词 1

geranium

下位词 3

herb Robert spotted cranesbill wild geranium

相关短语

spotted cranesbill [网络] 发现起重机 Carolina cranesbill

词源

First attested in the 1500s. Calque of Dutch craenhals; cognate with German Kranichhals and Middle Low German kraneshals, all likely derived from Latin geranium, from Ancient Greek γέρᾰνος (gérănos, “crane”). By surface analysis, crane + -s- + bill. The flowering plant is so called because of the lengthened appendage of the seed vessel.

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