medick

n. 苜蓿

词形变化

medicks 复数 medicks

别名

medic

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Any of various European and North African herbs, of the genus Medicago, several of which are grown for fodder etc.

    不可数
adj.
  1. 1.

    Obsolete spelling of medic (“medical”).

    废旧

词汇关系

名词

同义词 2

medic trefoil

上位词 1

herb

下位词 4

alfalfa lucerne hop clover moon trefoil

词源

From Middle English medike, from Latin mēdica, from Ancient Greek μηδίκη (mēdíkē), short for Μηδικὴ πόα (Mēdikḕ póa, “Median grass”); so called because medick was imported from Media to Greece during the Greco-Persian Wars.

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