Tunic

['tjuːnɪk] or ['tʊnɪk]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) any of a variety of loose fitting cloaks extending to the hips or knees.

(noun.) an enveloping or covering membrane or layer of body tissue.

埃莉诺手打--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(n.) An under-garment worn by the ancient Romans of both sexes. It was made with or without sleeves, reached to or below the knees, and was confined at the waist by a girdle.

(n.) Any similar garment worm by ancient or Oriental peoples; also, a common name for various styles of loose-fitting under-garments and over-garments worn in modern times by Europeans and others.

(n.) Same as Tunicle.

(n.) A membrane, or layer of tissue, especially when enveloping an organ or part, as the eye.

(n.) A natural covering; an integument; as, the tunic of a seed.

(n.) See Mantle, n., 3 (a).

編輯:洛拉

解釋/意思:

n. a loose frock worn by females and boys: an ecclesiastical short-sleeved vestment worn over the alb at mass by the sub-deacon very similar to the dalmatic but smaller: a military surcoat: the ordinary fatigue-coat of a private soldier also the coat of an officer: (anat.) a membrane that covers some organ: (bot.) a covering as of a seed.—n. Tunicā′ta a class of remarkable animals many of which are popularly known as Ascidians or sea-squirts—now regarded as occupying a lowly place among vertebrate or chordate animals.—adjs. Tū′nicate -d (bot.) covered with a tunic or with layers.—n. Tū′nicle a little tunic: as an ecclesiastical vestment the same as tunic.

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