Kidney

['kɪdnɪ] or ['kɪdni]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) either of two bean-shaped excretory organs that filter wastes (especially urea) from the blood and excrete them and water in urine; 'urine passes out of the kidney through ureters to the bladder'.

布兰奇手打--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(n.) A glandular organ which excretes urea and other waste products from the animal body; a urinary gland.

(n.) Habit; disposition; sort; kind.

(n.) A waiter.

編輯:迈尔斯

解釋/意思:

n. one of two flattened glands on each side of the loins which secrete the urine: temperament humour disposition—hence sort or kind as in 'of the same kidney ' &c.—ns. Kid′ney-bean a kind of bean shaped like a kidney; Kid′ney-potā′to one of various kidney-shaped varieties of the common potato; Kid′ney-vetch a genus of leguminous plants the only British species being called Lady's Fingers; Kid′ney-wort a plant of the genus Saxifrage.

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