alphenic

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. White barley sugar countable,rare,uncountable
    — There was Patella — wise as any owl — promising to cure me with his "Alphenic" ; but him I quickly showed the door; for here (laying his hand on the book), in here, I found this learned word is Arabic for sugar-candy!

词形变化

alphenics plural

词源

From French alphénic, alfénic, from Spanish alfeñique, from Arabic فَانِيد (fānīd), from Persian پانید (pânid, “sugar candy”).
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