culmen

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Top; summit.
    — the Shibboleth and Culmen of Honesty
  2. The dorsal ridge of a bird's bill.
    — The measurements were taken as follows: wing length, from the carpal joint to the tip of the longest primary; tarsus length, from the tibiotarsal joint to the distal undivided scute; upper mandible length, the chord length from the point where the culmen enters the feathers of the head to the tip; bill depth, in the vertical plane level at the anterior edge of the nares.

词形变化

culmens plural culmina plural

词汇关系

衍生词
culminal culminicorn

词源

Borrowed from Latin culmen (“apex, acme”).
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