“cotyle”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

cotyle

释义

‖ cotyle|ˈkɒtɪliː|
[Gr. κοτύλη (in L. form cotyla) a hollow thing, a small vessel, a small liquid measure of about half a pint.]
1. Gr. Antiq. See quots. Also ‖ kotyle.
1707Floyer Physic. Pulse-Watch 281 Galen Bleeds Youth of fourteen Years one Cotyla, that is, ten Ounces.1857Birch Anc. Pottery (1858) II. 96 The cotyle, or cotylos, is supposed to have been a deep cup..It was also a measure of liquid capacity.1926C. Day Lewis in Oxf. Poetry 18 (title) Naked woman with kotyle.1948A. Lane Greek Pott. iv. 26 Kotyle, painted in brown-black on greenish buff clay.
2. Anat. and Zool.
a. The acetabulum or socket of the hip-joint; also the coxal cavity in insects.
b. One of the cup-shaped suckers on the ‘arms’ of cephalopods, or on the heads of leeches, trematoid worms, etc.
1882Syd. Soc. Lex., Cotyle, the acetabulum, or socket of the hip-joint. Also, a cup-shaped organ, of which there are many, on the arm of Cephalopoda, by which the animal attaches itself.

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