anfracture

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A mazy winding. obsolete
    — But that these Trochisks may be right made, the whitest and light pulp of Coloquintida must be selected, and not onely incided, put pulverated small: being crass, and introsumed, it moves the Dysentery, and abrades the intestines from such portions as are contained in its gyres and anfractures.
  2. A fissure or cavity that traces an irregular path.
    — Who would have thought that in the anfractures of the rocks, in nooks where the sun had never penetrated, one would find rhododendrons, heath, mimosas, crocuses, jasmine, Chinese primroses, and laurel-thyme?

词形变化

anfractures plural

词汇关系

相关词
anfractuous

词源

From Latin ānfrāctus (“bend; circuitous route”).
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