单词 | coremium |
释义 | coremium in British English (kɒˈriːmɪəm) noun biology the spore-producing organ of certain fungi that consists of conidiophores coremium in American English (kɔˈrimiəm, kou-, kə-) nounWord forms: plural -mia (-miə) Biology the fruiting bodies of certain fungi, consisting of a loosely bound bundle of conidiophores Word origin [1925–30; ‹ NL ‹ Gk kórēm(a) besom, broom + -ium -ium]This word is first recorded in the period 1925–30. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: distinctive feature, dropout, hot spot, off-line, reflex camera-ium is a suffix found on nouns borrowed from Latin, esp. derivatives of verbs (odium; tedium; colloquium; delirium), deverbal compounds with the initial element denoting the object of the verb (nasturtium), other types of compounds (equilibrium; millennium), and derivatives of personal nouns, often denoting the associated status or office(collegium; consortium; magisterium); -ium also occurs in scientific coinages on a Latin model, as in names of metallic elements(barium; titanium) and as a Latinization of Greek -ion (pericardium)Examples of 'coremium' in a sentence |
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