tetter

n. 皮肤病, 丘疹 [医] 皮肤病(俗名); 动物痒症(传染人的畜类皮病)

发音

UK /ˈtɛtə/
US /ˈtɛtɚ/
US /-ɾɚ/

词形变化

tetters 复数 tettered tettering tetters 三单 tettering 现在分词 tettered 过去式 tettered 过去分词

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Any of various pustular skin conditions.

    古体 可数 不可数
  2. 1.

    Potato, or sweet potato root.

    废旧
v.
  1. 1.

    To affect with tetter.

相关短语

scaly tetter [医] 牛皮癣; 鳞屑性湿疹 moist tetter honeycomb tetter [医] 黄癣

词源

From Middle English teter, from Old English teter, tetr, tetra, from Proto-West Germanic *tetru, from Proto-Germanic *tetruz, *tetruhaz, from Proto-Indo-European *dedru-, from Proto-Indo-European *der- (“to flay, split, crack”).

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