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n. 土窖, 地穴, 地下室 [医] 隐窝; 滤泡, 腺管

发音

其它 /kɹɪpt/

词形变化

crypts 复数 crypts

教材释义与例句

名词

土窖，地下室；腺窝

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A cave or cavern.

    古体
  2. 2.

    An underground vault.

    隐窝

    土窖

    地穴

  3. 3.

    An underground vault.

    Especially: one beneath a church that is used as a burial chamber.

    Near-synonyms: vault, tomb, sepulchre, sepulcher

  4. 4.

    A small pit or cavity in the surface of an organ or other structure.

    医学

    Near-synonyms: fovea, fossa

  5. 5.

    Any of the genus Cryptocoryne of aquatic plants of southern and southeastern Asia.

    生物 植物学
  6. 6.

    Any of the genus Cryptopus of orchids of Madagascar and Mauritius.

    生物 植物学

词汇关系

名词

上位词 4

burial chamber sepulcher sepulchre sepulture

相关短语

crypt of Lieberkühn intestinal crypt [医] 肠腺

词源

Learned borrowing from Latin crypta (“vault”), from Ancient Greek κρυπτός (kruptós, “hidden”). Doublet of grotto.

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