单词 | picric |
释义 | picric in British Englishadjective picric acid picric in American English (ˈpɪkrɪk) adjective Chemistry of or derived from picric acid Word origin [1850–55; ‹ Gk pikr(ós) bitter + -ic]This word is first recorded in the period 1850–55. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: cloakroom, headhunting, heavyweight, runoff, segue-ic is a suffix forming adjectives from other parts of speech, occurring originally inGreek and Latin loanwords (metallic; poetic; archaic; public) and, on this model, used as an adjective-forming suffix with the particular senses“having some characteristics of” (opposed to the simple attributive use of the basenoun) (balletic; sophomoric); “in the style of” (Byronic; Miltonic); “pertaining to a family of peoples or languages” (Finnic; Semitic; Turkic)Examples of 'picric' in a sentence |
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