pyrene
/pahy-reen, pahy-reen/US // ˈpaɪ rin, paɪˈrin //UK // (ˈpaɪriːn) //
芘,芘股,芘芘,芘基
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 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.
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