meagre

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An edible fish, of species Argyrosomus regius, of the family Sciaenidae, found from the Black Sea to the eastern Atlantic.
    — 1986, A. Wysokiński, The Living Marine Resources of the Southeast Atlantic, FAO Fisheries Technical Paper 178, page 48, Among more valuable species some of them are worth mentioning, especially littoral forms as: meagres and other croakers (Sciaenidae), grunters (Pomadasyidae), threadfins (Polynemidae), groupers (Serranidae), snappers (Lutjanidae) […] .
动词 v.
  1. To make lean. Canada,UK,common,transitive
    — I am meagred to a skeleton; my nose is broiled to flaming heat, and I am suffering the greatest inconvenience from the loss of my baggage which I fear the enemy have taken with my servant at Konigsberg.
形容词 adj.
  1. Having little flesh; lean; thin. Canada,UK,common
    — […]meagre were his looks; / Sharp misery had worn him to the bones:
  2. Deficient or inferior in amount, quality or extent Canada,UK,common
    — Nothing will grow in this meagre soil.
  3. Of a set: such that, considered as a subset of a (usually larger) topological space, it is in a precise sense small or negligible. Canada,UK,common
  4. Dry and harsh to the touch (e.g., as chalk). Canada,UK,common

词形变化

meagres plural meagrer comparative meagrest superlative meager alternative meagres present,singular,third-person meagring participle,present meagred participle,past meagred past meager alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
comeagre meagrely meagreness

词源

词源 1
From Middle French maigre.
词源 2
From Middle English megre, borrowed from Anglo-Norman megre, Old French maigre, from Latin macer, macrum, from Proto-Indo-European *mh₂ḱrós. Cognate with Old English mæġer (“meagre, lean”), Dutch mager (“lean”), German mager (“lean”), Icelandic magur (“lean”).
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