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calvus

/kal-vuhs/US // ˈkæl vəs //

钙化,钙华,钙质,钙片

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    Meteorology.

    • : having its upper portion changing from a rounded, cumuliform shape to a diffuse, whitish, cirriform mass with vertical striations.

Examples

  • If justice is wounded because Florus keeps afloat in the shipwreck where Varius and Calvus perish, it is justice which is wrong.

  • Go to meet him, learned Catullus, 630 with thy Calvus, having thy youthful temples bound with ivy.

  • The letter refers to correspondence with Calvus, and criticizes his oratory.

  • Troglodytes calvus, a species or variety of chimpanzee, is bald-headed.

  • Anthropopithecus calvus, Flower & Lydekker, Mammals, p. 736 .