alveary

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A beehive, or anything resembling a beehive.
    — The value of an alveary or hive was 4d, and a swarm on a tree was recognised as free for the taking.
  2. The hollow of the external ear.
    — The effects of the hydriatic treatment upon inflammations of the brain are elimination of the matter of disease, partly through perspiration and eruptions on the head, but more through abnormal secretions from the alvearies or hollows of the ears, and from the nostrils (catarrh); oftentimes these secretions have quite an abnormal color and acridness.
  3. A repository, especially of knowledge or information.
    — They married the proprietors of the great empty alvearies, filled these with seed, and obtained, in return, titles and crowns, which were the baubles of which they had ever been dreaming.

词形变化

alvearies plural

词源

From Latin alvearium (“beehive”). In the sense of the hollow of the ear, because it is where the wax accumulates. In the sense of a repository: originally the name of a dictionary encompassing several languages, because of the many contributors being like "busy bees".
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