thigh

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n. 大腿, 股 [医] 股, 大腿

发音

US /θaɪ/

词形变化

thighs 复数 thighs

释义与例句

n. B2
  1. 1.

    The upper leg of a human, between the hip and the knee.

    大腿

    大髀

    髀

  2. 2.

    That part of the leg of vertebrates (or sometimes other animals) which corresponds to the human thigh in position or function; the tibia of a horse, the tarsus of a bird; the third leg-section of an insect.

词汇关系

名词

同义词 1

second joint

上位词 4

helping serving portion limb

下位词 1

lap

部分词 10

hip quad femur coxa dark meat femoral artery femoral vein hip joint quadriceps quadriceps femoris

整体词 3

leg bird fowl

相关短语

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词源

From Middle English thigh, thegh, thiȝ, theȝhe, þigh, þyȝh, from Old English þēoh, þīoh, from Proto-West Germanic *þeuh, from Proto-Germanic *þeuhą, from Proto-Indo-European *tewk-. See also West Frisian tsjea, Dutch dij, Middle High German diech, Icelandic þjó; also Irish tóin (“hind, rump”), Lithuanian táukas (“fat”), Russian тук (tuk, “animal fat”).

来源：wiktionary