| 单词 | acanthous |
| 释义 | acanthous in British English (əˈkænθəs) adjective another term for spinous spinous in British English (ˈspaɪnəs) adjective biology 1. resembling a spine or thorn the spinous process of a bone 2. having spines or spiny projections 3. another word for spinose acanthous in American English (əˈkænθəs) adjective spinous Word origin [acanth- + -ous]-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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