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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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