isthmus
地峡,峡部,峡口,峡湾
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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.
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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.