| 单词 | osmious |
| 释义 | osmious in British English (ˈɒzmɪəs) adjective another word for osmous osmous in British English (ˈɒzməs) adjective of or containing osmium in a low valence state, esp the divalent state Also: osmious osmious in American English (ˈɑzmiəs) adjective Chemistry of or containing osmium in its lower valences Word origin [1840–50; osmi(um) + -ous]This word is first recorded in the period 1840–50. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: dope, flan, layout, plaque, set piece-ous is a suffix forming adjectives that have the general sense “possessing, full of”a given quality (covetous; glorious; nervous; wondrous); -ous and its variant -ious have often been used to Anglicize Latin adjectives with terminations that cannotbe directly adapted into English (atrocious; contiguous; garrulous; obvious; stupendous). As an adjective-forming suffix of neutral value, it regularly Anglicizes Greekand Latin adjectives derived without suffix from nouns and verbs; many such formationsare productive combining forms in English, sometimes with a corresponding nominalcombining form that has no suffix (as -fer and -ferous; -phore and -phorous; -pter and -pterous; -vore and -vorous) |
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