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glossa

/glos-uh, glaw-suh/US // ˈglɒs ə, ˈglɔ sə //UK // (ˈɡlɒsə) //

光泽度,词汇表,光泽,光滑度

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural glos·sae [glos-ee, glaw-see], /ˈglɒs i, ˈglɔ si/, glos·sas.

    • : Anatomy. the tongue.
    • : Entomology. one of a pair of median, sometimes fused lobes of the labium of an insect.

Examples

  • On these place a new pot, pour into it some fornis mentioned above, called by the Romans glossa, otherwise gum arabic.

  • Late in life he retired to his villa, and there in quiet worked on his great Glossa till he died.

  • The Glossa Ordinaria, as it is called, is the best known of these commentaries.

  • Lingua spiralis: the spiral tongue of Lepidoptera: see glossa.

  • Dondeus says this interpretation is clearly proved by the authority of a glossa in the chapter: Ex litterarum.