tessera

n. 特塞拉镶嵌地砖

词形变化

tesserae 复数 tesserae

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A small square piece of stone, wood, ivory or glass used for making a mosaic.

    纸皮石

  2. 2.

    complex-ridged surface feature seen on plateau highlands of Venus and perhaps on Triton

    天文
  3. 3.

    An ancient Roman die.

    罕用

词汇关系

名词

上位词 1

tile

下位词 1

tessella

整体词 1

mosaic

词源

Borrowed from Latin tessera (“a cube, a die with numbers on all six sides”), from Ancient Greek τέσσαρες (téssares, “four”).

来源：wiktionary