liman

[医] 咸湖, 咸沼

发音

/lɪˈmɑn/

词形变化

limans 复数 limans

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A wide estuary formed as a lagoon at the mouth of one or more rivers, where flow is constrained by a bar of sediments (created by either the current of a sea or a sediment-saturated river), especially in the Black Sea region.

词汇关系

名词

上位词 2

lagoon lagune

词源

From Russian лима́н (limán) or Ukrainian лима́н (lymán), from Turkic, compare Turkish liman (“port, harbor”). Ultimately from Ancient Greek λιμήν (limḗn, “harbor”).

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