fontanelle

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A soft membraneous spot on the head of a baby due to incomplete fusion of the cranial bones.
  2. A structural component of some woodwind instruments, such as recorders and shawms, resembling a barrel with holes bored into it, designed to protect the keywork and to allow the sound to project.

词形变化

fontanelles plural fontanel alternative

词汇关系

近义词
soft spot
衍生词
fontanellar transfontanelle

词源

Borrowed from French fontanelle, from Old French fontenelle, a diminutive of fontaine (“fountain, spring”) + -elle, from Late Latin fontāna, from Latin fontānus, from font- + -ānus. By surface analysis, font + -an + -elle.
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