soucoupe

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A type of small submarine designed to hold two people.
    — Dr. Francis P. Shepard, Professor of Submarine Geology, who has been studying the canyons from the surface for thirty years, remarked: “I learned more in my three dives in the soucoupe.”

词形变化

soucoupes plural

词源

From French soucoupe, ellipsis of soucoupe plongeante (“diving saucer”).
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