twiglet

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A small twig.
    — But what of the beginnings—to come back to the question—the first stirrings in the biological twiglet of evolution, when that splendid solid-state apparatus had not yet developed and a few smallish organic molecules were all that was?

词形变化

twiglets plural

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *twīgą
Proto-West Germanic *twīg
Old English twiġ
Middle English twig
English twig
Proto-Indo-European *-lós
Proto-Indo-European *-elós
Proto-Italic *-elos
Latin -lus
Latin -ellus
Old French -el
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Italic *-tosder.?
Late Latin -ittus
Old French -et
Old French -eletbor.
Middle English -let
English -let
English twiglet
From twig + -let.
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