lac

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A resinous substance or lacquer produced mainly on the banyan tree by the female of Kerria lacca, a scale insect. countable,uncountable
    — At the turn of the century, the ever-expanding electrical industry was running low on shellac, a resin secreted by the female lac bug which could be used as an insulating material.
  2. Dated spelling of lakh.
    — […] Lake [i.e., Gerard Lake, 1st Viscount Lake] should not have leisure to breathe for a moment, and calamities would fall on lacs of human beings in continued war by the attacks of his army, which would overwhelm like the waves of the sea.
  3. Clipping of Cadillac abbreviation,alt-of,clipping,slang
    — Last night I was driving around in my lac.
  4. Laceration. colloquial,countable,uncountable
    — hand lac

词形变化

lacs plural lacs plural lacs plural lacs plural

词源

词源 1
From Portuguese laca, from Hindi लाख (lākh)/Urdu لاکھ (lākh) or cognates in other Indo-Aryan languages, from Sanskrit लाक्षा (lākṣā). Doublet of lacquer.
词源 2
From Cadillac.
词源 3
From laceration.
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