spavin

n. (马的)跗节内肿

发音

US /ˈspævɪn/
其它
UK /ˈspævɪn/

词形变化

spavins 复数 spavined spavining spavins 三单 spavins spavining 现在分词 spavined 过去式 spavined 过去分词

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A bony swelling which develops in a horse's leg where the shank and splint bone meet, caused by inflammation of the cartilage connecting those bones; also, a similar swelling caused by inflammation of the hock bones.

    可数 生物 动物学 医学 体育 不可数
  2. 2.

    A disease of horses caused by this bony swelling (etymology 1, noun sense 1.1).

    不可数 生物 动物学 医学 体育 可数
  3. 3.

    A similar disease causing a person's leg to be lame.

    不可数 引申义 可数
  4. 1.

    The stratum of earth underneath a coal deposit.

    罕用 及物 商务 采矿
v.
  1. 1.

    To cause (a horse or its leg) to have spavin (noun etymology 1, noun sense 1.2).

    罕用 及物 生物 动物学 医学 体育
  2. 2.

    To impair or injure (someone or something).

    比喻 罕用 及物

词汇关系

名词

下位词 3

blood spavin bog spavin bone spavin

相关短语

bog spavin 跗关节部腱鞘炎; 飞节软肿 bone spavin 飞节内肿 blood spavin 飞节血肿

词源

The noun is derived from Middle English spavein, spaveine (“swelling on horse’s leg causing lameness; disease causing lameness in horses”), from Old French espavain, a variant of esparvain, esprevain, esprevin (modern French éparvin, épervin). The further etymology is unknown; one suggestion is that it is from Frankish *sparwan (“sparrow”), though this is seen as quite tenuous. The verb is derived from the noun.

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