| 单词 |
excentric |
| 释义 |
excentric, a. Variant of eccentric a., q.v.; the preferred spelling for senses 2 and 3 in Botany, and in contexts where a writer wishes to avoid the associations of sense 6.
1866Lindley & Moore Treas. Bot. 483/1 Excentric, out of the centre. 1895W. Schlich Man. Forestry III. i. v. 73 The trees grow generally more or less excentric. 1896Ibid. V. i. i. 11 The pith of a tree is frequently excentric. 1948L. Spitzer Linguistics & Lit. Hist. i. 19 By then he will know whether he is really permanently installed in the center, or whether he finds himself in an ‘excentric’ or peripheric position. 1962F. White Forest Flora N. Rhodesia 116 B[rachystegia] wangermeeana..midrib v. excentric. 1965F. Sargeson Memoirs of Peon vii. 231 The individual isolation which I had hitherto always associated with any ex-centric standpoint. |

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