英语词汇“orchis”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典-新都网

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web In orchids, myth and folk medicine meet The word of the day: orchis.

National Geographic, 5 Nov. 2019

Word History

Etymology

borrowed from Latin (New Latin as a genus name), borrowed from Greek órchis "testicle, orchid" (the latter sense from the testicle-like shape of the paired tubers of some species), going back to Indo-European *h₃erǵh-i-, whence also, with differing suffixation and ablaut, Armenian orjik‛ "testicles," Albanian herdhe, Middle Irish uirge, Avestan ərəzi, Hittite arki- "testicle," ark- "mount, copulate (with)" and, as a suffixed noun derivative, Lithuanian er̃žilas (dialectal ar̃žilas) "stallion"

First Known Use

1859, in the meaning defined above

单词	orchis
释义	orchis noun or·chis ˈȯr-kəs : orchid especially : any of a genus (Orchis) of orchids with fleshy roots and a spurred lip Example Sentences Recent Examples on the Web In orchids, myth and folk medicine meet The word of the day: orchis. National Geographic, 5 Nov. 2019 Word History Etymology borrowed from Latin (New Latin as a genus name), borrowed from Greek órchis "testicle, orchid" (the latter sense from the testicle-like shape of the paired tubers of some species), going back to Indo-European h₃erǵh-i-, whence also, with differing suffixation and ablaut, Armenian orjik‛* "testicles," Albanian herdhe, Middle Irish uirge, Avestan ərəzi, Hittite arki- "testicle," ark- "mount, copulate (with)" and, as a suffixed noun derivative, Lithuanian er̃žilas (dialectal ar̃žilas) "stallion" First Known Use 1859, in the meaning defined above
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