| 单词 | canal |
| 释义 | canal /keuh nal"/, n. , v. , canalled or canaled, canalling or canaling. n. 1. an artificial waterway for navigation, irrigation, etc. 2. a long narrow arm of the sea penetrating far inland. 3. a tubular passage or cavity for food, air, etc., esp. in an animal or plant; a duct. 4. channel; watercourse. 5. Astron. one of the long, narrow, dark lines on the surface of the planet Mars, as seen telescopically from the earth. v.t. 6. to make a canal through. [1400-50; late ME: waterpipe, tubular passage < L canalis, perh. equiv. to can(na) reed, pipe (see CANE) + -alis -AL1; def. 5 a mistranslation of It canali channels, term used by G. V. Schiaparelli] |
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