单词 | turreted |
释义 | turretedadj. 1. Furnished with or having a turret or turrets. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > defensive walls > [adjective] > having turrets turreteda1550 bartizaned1818 society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > architectural ornament > [adjective] > turreted garreted1531 turreted1794 rondelled1858 turret-topped1892 a1550 in S. Baring-Gould & R. Twigge Armory Western Counties (1898) 3 Barnestaple Towne: Arg: a triple turreted tower gul: betweene 3 ogresses. 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Turretted or made full of turrettes, turritus. 1794 A. Radcliffe Myst. of Udolpho I. vi. 173 The one [avenue] leading to the turreted chateau. 1826 B. Disraeli Vivian Grey I. ii. iv. 111 Over the gateway there rose a turreted tower. 1863 ‘G. Eliot’ Romola II. vi. 52 It was a grand moment for those who were stationed on turreted roofs. 2. Furnished with something resembling a turret: cf. turret n. 2, 3. a. Of artificial things; spec. applied to a figure of a crown with battlements, or of a head (or person) wearing such a crown. ΘΚΠ society > authority > office > symbol of office or authority > regalia > [adjective] > relating to a crown or coronation > (wearing) types of crown rostrate1601 archal1602 turreted1610 mure-crowned1682 turrited1759 1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 801 The Goddesse Suria..with a turreted crowne on her head. 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §373 Take a Turreted Lampe of Tinne,..The Height of the Turret being thrice as much, as the length of the lower part, whereupon the Lampe standeth. 1824 M. R. Mitford Our Village I. 38 No bonnet could hold the turreted cap. 1837 W. Whewell Hist. Inductive Sci. I. 246 Turretted ships. 1872 B. V. Head Sel. Greek Coins Brit. Mus. 37 Head of Kybele.., wearing turreted crown. 1872 B. V. Head Sel. Greek Coins Brit. Mus. 42 Turreted female figure, city of Antioch, seated..on rock. b. Of natural objects; spec. of a shell with a long spire: = turrited adj. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Mollusca > [adjective] > of parts of molluscs > of shell or parts of shell testaceous1668 trivalvous1681 articulate1685 tabulous1734 concamerated1747 costated1751 ribbed1752 multivalve1753 umbilical1755 multivalved1759 trichite1765 right-handed1776 ventricose1777 unequivalved1788 sinistral1803 white-lipped1813 white-mouthed1815 turriculated1822 umbonial1824 turreted1826 siphunculated1828 columellar1829 sinistrorsal1830 canaliferous1834 spirivalve1835 turrited1835 versant1839 mitriform1843 paucispiral1843 turriculate1843 siphuncled1847 ventricous1850 camerated1851 convolute1851 perforated1851 parietal1854 septiferous1854 planorbiform1856 planorboid1856 trivalved1856 turrite1856 siphunculate1875 turriform1875 umbonic1877 costate1881 interlocular1888 varicated1891 lirate1894 evolute1896 1826 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. IV. xlvi. 306 Turreted... When the head is producted into a kind of columnar re~curved turret or rostrum, in the sides of which, towards the end, the eyes are fixed. 1828 J. Stark Elements Nat. Hist. II. 30 Terebra,..Shell elongated, turreted, acuminate. 1872 H. A. Nicholson Man. Palæontol. 62 In other cases, the shell becomes turreted or top-shaped, in consequence of the coils of the spiral passing obliquely round a central axis. 1875 C. C. Blake Zoology 254 In the Pyramidellidæ the shell is spiral and turreted. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.a1550 |
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