echinus

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A sea urchin.
    — 'It is a sea-urchin - a common echinus. Nature repeats itself in many forms regardless of the size. This echinus is a model, a prototype, of the world.'
  2. The rounded moulding forming the bell of the capital of the Grecian Doric style, which is of a peculiar elastic curve.
  3. The quarter-round moulding (ovolo) of the Roman Doric style.
  4. The egg-and-anchor or egg-and-dart moulding, because often identified with the Roman Doric capital.

词形变化

echinuses plural echini plural

词源

From Latin echīnus (“hedgehog; sea urchin”), from Ancient Greek ἐχῖνος (ekhînos).
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