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单词 saturnism
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Saturn /satˈərn/

noun
  1. The ancient Roman god of agriculture
  2. Commonly used for the Greek Kronos, with whom he came to be identified
  3. The second in size and sixth in distance from the sun of the major planets, believed by the astrologers to induce a cold, melancholy, gloomy temperament
  4. The metal lead (alchemy)
ORIGIN: L Sāturnus, from serere, satum to sow

Saturnāˈlia plural noun (Roman hist)

  1. The festival of Saturn in mid-December, a time of great gift-giving and revelry when slaves had temporary freedom
  2. Hence (often as sing without cap) a wild party or orgy

saturnāˈlian adjective

  1. Of the Saturnalia
  2. Riotously merry

Saturˈnia /sat- or sət-/ noun

A genus of very large moths

Saturˈnian adjective

  1. Relating to Saturn, whose legendary reign was called the golden age
  2. Hence happy, pure, simple
  3. In the metre in which early Latin poems were written
  4. Of the planet Saturn
  5. Saturnine
noun
  1. A person born under Saturn, or of saturnine temperament
  2. The son of Saturn (Jupiter or Zeus)
  3. A fancied inhabitant of Saturn

saturˈnic adjective (medicine)

Suffering from lead-poisoning

saturniid /-ni-id/ noun

Any large moth of the family Saturniidae, incl the emperor moth (also adjective)

satˈurnine adjective

  1. Grave
  2. Gloomy
  3. Phlegmatic
  4. Caused or poisoned by lead

satˈurninely adverb

satˈurnism noun

Lead-poisoning

satˈurnist noun (obsolete)

A gloomy person

Saturn's tree noun

An arborescent deposit of lead from a solution of a lead salt

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