释义 |
Cambro-|ˈkæmbrəʊ| mod.L. Cambro-, as in Cambro-Britannicus (1592), used as combining form in the sense ‘pertaining to Cambria, Welsh’. Also in sense ‘Cambrian’ (Geol.)
1612Drayton Poly-Olb. Pref., To my friends, the Cambro-Britans. 1748Smollett Rod. Rand. I. xxv. 233 A prescription..which.. the Welchman..got up to prepare... This Cambro Briton..ordered the tar to run to his mess-mate. 1853W. J. Rees (title) Lives of the Cambro British Saints. 1871Lowell Study Windows 164 Tennyson in the Cambro-Breton cyclus of Arthur. 1925J. Joly Surface-Hist. Earth iii. 57 Almost complete submergence of North America in Cambro-Ordovician times. 1967Oceanogr. & Marine Biol. V. 317 Permanent ocean basins which have not changed significantly in their area or position since Cambro-Ordovician times, some 500 million years ago. |