| 释义 |
‖ promontorium|prɒmənˈtɔərɪəm|
[med.L.: see next.]
a. = next, 1.
b. = next, 2.
1652–62Heylin Cosmogr. Introd. (1674) 19/1 Promontorium, is a high Mountain which shooteth it self into the Sea, the utmost end of which is called a Foreland, or Cape. 1831[see next, 2]. 1871Daily News 23 Jan., This long bluff..its promontorium throws forward, as it were, two sheltering wings for batteries stationed in the narrow waist behind. |