Vertebra
['vɜːtɪbrə] or ['vɝtɪbrə]
解釋/意思:
(n.) One of the serial segments of the spinal column.
(n.) One of the central ossicles in each joint of the arms of an ophiuran.
西里尔整理
解釋/意思:
n. one of the segmented portions of the spinal column:—pl. Vertebr (ver′te-brē).—adj. Ver′tebral.—adv. Ver′tebrally.—n.pl. Vertebrā′ta a division of the animal kingdom containing all animals having a backbone or its equivalent.—n. Ver′tebrāte an animal having an internal skeleton with a backbone.—adjs. Ver′tebrāte -d furnished with joints: having a backbone.—n. Vertebrā′tion the formation of vertebr?.
手打:特雷弗
例句/造句/用法:
- The other males scattered in all directions, but not before the infuriated brute had felt the vertebra of one snap between his great, foaming jaws. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- Why should the brain be enclosed in a box composed of such numerous and such extraordinarily shaped pieces of bone apparently representing vertebrae? 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- The caudal and sacral vertebrae vary in number; as does the number of the ribs, together with their relative breadth and the presence of processes. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- They showed us a cast of his face taken after death, the bullet that killed him, and the two vertebrae in which it lodged. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- There was a long sustained and supreme effort on the ape-man's part--and the vertebrae of Sabor's neck parted with a sharp snap. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
錄入:特丽萨