caduceus

/kuh-doo-see-uhs, -syoos, -shuhs, -dyoo-/US // kəˈdu si əs, -syus, -ʃəs, -ˈdyu- //UK // (kəˈdjuːsɪəs) //

仙人掌,斗篷,仙人球,仙人指路

Definitions

n.名词 noun

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plural ca·du·ce·i [kuh-doo-see-ahy, -shee-ahy, -dyoo-]. /kəˈdu siˌaɪ, -ʃiˌaɪ, -ˈdyu-/.
- : Classical Mythology. the staff carried by Mercury as messenger of the gods.
- : a representation of this staff used as an emblem of the medical profession and as the insignia of the U.S. Army Medical Corps.

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Synonyms

And that accomplishment was sitting right there on the desk with a golden caduceus gleaming on the cover.
Romney was smiling as brightly as the caduceus when the painting was officially unveiled at the statehouse in July 2009.
The inclusion of the Caduceus seemed no less important to Romney than the inclusion of his wife.
“The whole problem was what to do with the caduceus,” Whitney recalls.
Romney even forgot that he had forgotten the bill with the golden caduceus.
The name of Hermes was chosen because of the supposed magical powers of the god of the caduceus.
I don't know whether anyone has ever remarked that the caduceus of Mercury represents two serpents coupled.
She holds in her left hand the caduceus, the winged rod of Mercury, in her right a miniature ship.
And one of them had a petasus and a golden caduceus, and the other had a trumpet.
It was much later when the big caduceus set into the sidewalk snapped him back to awareness of where he'd traveled.