Limb



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解释

GRE 红宝书

• n. 肢 ( 手或脚) ; 翼
• ［英］ n. 肢 ( 手或脚) ;翼 ( an arm, leg, or wing)
• ［类］ twig : limb / brook : river ( 小树枝和树枝 / 小溪和河流)
• ［记］ 注意比较: limp ( 跛行, 松软的) , limn ( 描绘)

Webster Collegiate

I. noun

• Etymology: Middle English lim, from Old English; akin to Old Norse limr limb and perhaps to Old English lith limb
• Date: before 12th century
• 1.
  • a. one of the projecting paired appendages (as wings) of an animal body used especially for movement and grasping but sometimes modified into sensory or sexual organs
  • b. a leg or arm of a human being
• 2. a large primary branch of a tree
• 3. an active member or agent
• 4. extension, branch
• 5. a mischievous child
• ? limbless adjective
• ? limby adjective

II. transitive verb

• Date: 1674
• 1. dismember
• 2. to cut off the limbs of (a felled tree)

III. noun

• Etymology: Latin limbus border
• Date: circa 1677
• 1. the outer edge of the apparent disk of a celestial body
• 2. the expanded portion of an organ or structure; especially the upper spreading portion of a corolla (as of the phlox) whose lower part consists of a tube of fused petals

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