fetus

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal. Australia,Canada,US,also
    — Several feti were removed from every rats' uterus, stripped of their membranes and allowed to lie in the peritoneal cavity connected to the placenta by the umbilical cord and with the placenta still attached to the uterine wall.
  2. A human embryo after the eighth week of gestation. Australia,Canada,US,also
    — The sequence is: molecules in reproductive systems, then gametes, zygotes, morulas, blastocysts, and then fetuses.
  3. A neonate. Australia,Canada,US,also,archaic
    — The real essence of that or any other sort of substances, it is evident, we know not; and therefore are so undetermined in our nominal essences, which we make ourselves, that, if several men were to be asked concerning some oddly-shaped fœtus, as soon as born, whether it were a man or no, it is past doubt one should meet with different answers.

词形变化

fetuses plural fetus plural feti hypercorrect,plural fetii misconstruction,plural foetus alternative,Commonwealth fœtus alternative,dated faetus alternative,obsolete fætus alternative,obsolete phoetus alternative,obsolete phœtus alternative,obsolete

词汇关系

衍生词
fetal feticide fetopathy fetucide fetus deletus fetus fetishist fetuslike grandfetus multifetus superfetation
相关词
fetus in fetu fetus papyraceus embryo

词源

A learned borrowing from Latin fētus (“offspring”). Doublet of fawn.
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