hailstone

大学

n. 冰雹块

发音

US /ˈheɪlstoʊn/

词形变化

hailstones 复数 hailstones

教材释义与例句

名词

冰雹

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A single ball of hail, or solid precipitation

    冰雹

    雹子

词汇关系

名词

上位词 2

ice water ice

整体词 1

hail

相关短语

hailstone number hailstone numbers

词源

From Middle English hailston, haylestone, hawelston, hawleston, from Old English hagolstān (“hailstone”), from Proto-West Germanic *haglastain, from Proto-Germanic *haglastainaz, equivalent to hail + stone. Cognate with West Frisian heilstien (“hailstone”), Saterland Frisian Hailsteen (“hailstone”), Dutch hagelsteen (“hailstone”), German Low German Hagelsteen (“hailstone”), German Hagelstein (“hailstone”), Swedish hagelsten (“hailstone”), Icelandic haglsteinn (“hailstone”).

来源：wiktionary