calvus
/kal-vuhs/US // ˈkæl vəs //
钙化,钙华,钙质,钙片
Definitions
adj.形容词 adjective
- 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 .
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