nasal

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
/ˈneɪ.zəl/|[ˈnej.zl̩]    /ˈneɪ.zəl/|[ˈnej.zl̩]|/ˈnæɪ.zəl/|[ˈnæɪ.zl̩]

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A medicine that operates through the nose; an errhine. archaic
  2. Ellipsis of nasal consonant. abbreviation,alt-of,ellipsis
  3. Ellipsis of nasal vowel. abbreviation,alt-of,ellipsis
  4. The part of a helmet projecting to protect the nose; a nose guard. historical
    — The nasal continued in use until about 1140, when it was generally discarded, but isolated examples may be found in every succeeding century down to the seventeenth.
  5. Ellipsis of nasal bone. abbreviation,alt-of,ellipsis
  6. A plate, or scale, on the nose of a fish, etc.
形容词 adj.
  1. Of or pertaining to the nose or to the nasion. relational
    — Reindeer are well suited to the taiga’s frigid winters. They can maintain a thermogradient between body core and the environment of up to 100 degrees, in part because of insulation provided by their fur, and in part because of counter-current vascular heat exchange systems in their legs and nasal passages.
  2. Having a sound imparted by means of the nose; and specifically, made by lowering the soft palate, in some cases with closure of the oral passage, the voice thus issuing (wholly or partially) through the nose, as in the consonants m, n, ng.
    — nasal vowel
  3. Characterized by resonance in the nasal passage.
    — nasal utterance
  4. Sharp, penetrating.

词形变化

more nasal comparative most nasal superlative nasals plural

词源

词源 1
From Middle English, from Medieval Latin nāsālis, from nāsus (“the nose”) + -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix). Doublet of nasalis.
词源 2
From Middle English, from Medieval Latin nāsālis, from nāsus (“the nose”) + -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix). Doublet of nasalis.
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