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pyrene

/pahy-reen, pahy-reen/US // ˈpaɪ rin, paɪˈrin //UK // (ˈpaɪriːn) //

芘,芘股,芘芘,芘基

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Botany.

    • : a putamen or stone, especially when there are several in a single fruit; a nutlet.

Examples

  • Then the pyrene extinguisher fell out, and I had to rescue it from under the nose of a tram.

  • We read of a Pyrene, which was a fountain of another nature; yet of the same etymology, however differently expressed.

  • I have taken notice, that the name of the mountain Pyrene signified a fountain of fire, and that the mountain had once flamed.

  • Farther on the hero came upon another monster in his way, Cycnus, the son of Mars and Pyrene.

  • Pyrene, a fountain in Corinth, consecrated also to the Muses.