| 释义 |
▪ I. glome|gləʊm|
[ad. L. glomus ball, clue.]
†1. A ball or clue of yarn, etc. In quot. fig.
1643Sir T. Browne Relig. Med. i. §43 There is therefore a secret glome or bottome of our days. 1656Blount Glossogr., Glome, a clue, or bottom of thread.
2. Bot. = glomerule 1.
1793Martyn Lang. Bot., Glomus, a glome, or roundish head of flowers. 1890Lippincott's Mag. Jan. 99 The flood Doth sometimes stain the marsh-flowers' moon-white glomes.
3. ‘Glome of frog: Bracey Clark's name for the two rounded, elastic eminences, separated by a cleft, which form the posterior extremity or base of the frog of the horse's foot’ (Syd. Soc. Lex. 1885).
▪ II. glome
var. gloom v.2, Obs. |