单词 | quintisternal |
释义 | > as lemmasquintisternal 2. Forming nouns (chiefly ad hoc formations) with the sense ‘being the fifth, involving a fifth, constituting the fifth part (of the thing specified)’, as quintiped, quintisternal, etc. ΚΠ 1833 R. Dunglison New Dict. Med. Sci. II. 240/2 Quintisternal, the fifth osseous portion of the sternum. It corresponds to the 5th and 6th intercostal spaces. 1839 C. W. H. Pauli Analecta Hebraica xxviii. 205 The so-called Quadri- and Quintiliterals are compounds. 1889 H. MacColl Mr. Stranger's Sealed Packet v. 50 All the creatures..were quadrupeds; there were no quintipeds, sexipeds, or anything of that sort. < as lemmas |
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