ridgebone

发音

/ˈɹɪd͡ʒbəʊn/

词形变化

ridgebones 复数 ridgebones

别名

ridge-bone

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    The backbone or spine.

    比喻 罕用 医学

    Let your body be erect and straight, your ridgebone answering to that of the horse; so that his body and your's may appear but as one piece of mechanism.

词源

From Middle English rygge-bone, rigbone, from Old English hryċġbān (“backbone; spine”), from Proto-West Germanic *hruggjabain, from Proto-Germanic *hrugjabainą (“backbone”); equivalent to ridge (“the back”) + bone.

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