单词 | tripodic |
释义 | tripodic in British English (traɪˈpɒdɪk) adjective entomology denoting a method of walking, found in some insects, in which two legs on one side of the body and one leg on the other side move at the same time tripodic in American English (traiˈpɑdɪk) adjective having or using three feet or legs Word origin [1890–95; tripod + -ic]This word is first recorded in the period 1890–95. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: blanket roll, bootstrap, historicism, masochism, takedown-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) |
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