isthmus 的定义
plural isth·mus·es, isth·mi [is-mahy]. /ˈɪs maɪ/.
- a narrow strip of land, bordered on both sides by water, connecting two larger bodies of land.
- Anatomy, Zoology. a connecting, usually narrow, part, organ, or passage, especially when joining structures or cavities larger than itself.
- Ichthyology. the narrow fleshy area between the sides of the lower jaw of a fish.
isthmus 近义词
等同于 neck
更多isthmus例句
- For example, on Saunders Island on the Falkland Islands, I was in an area called the Neck, a little isthmus.
- Eleventh place is quite the crowning achievement for the little isthmus—especially considering the low quality offerings.
- Is it really possible that we were once so wrapped around that isthmus?
- In the Shafrazi island, Warhol and Basquiat are up on this little isthmus together, a little spit of land.
- The only thing it rhymes with is isthmus, and that but loosely.
- Lionel Wafer in his travels upon the Isthmus of Darien in 1699 saw the plant growing and cultivated by the natives.
- Continet hic Isthmus leucas admod quingentas circuitu suo, emque occupant Soriqui populi.
- In this Isthmus is port royal, where we are now sojourning, lying on the parallel of 44 40'.
- This Isthmus has a circuit of fully five hundred leagues and is occupied by the Soriquois tribe.
- The town of the same name lies in the midst of a small plain, which forms the half of an isthmus.