calvous

形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ˈkælvəs/    美 /ˈkælvəs/

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Lacking most or all of one's hair; bald, hairless. formal,rare
    — Hubert had given me his passport, in great excitement. [...] Admittedly most old, bloated, calvous Germans could double for me, and even if he hadn't been doppelganger material, with the beard I had started growing and the two black eyes, you'd need x-rays to spot the difference.
  2. Lacking bristles or pappuses. rare
    — LXII. MORYSIA. Cass. / Achenium calvous, terete, furrowed, wingless. [...] Glabrous shrubs, with scattered oblong, dentate, or entire leaves, and corymbose yellow flowers: closely related to Athanasia, from which they differ in the calvous achenia.

词形变化

more calvous comparative most calvous superlative

词汇关系

相关词
calvities calvity

词源

Borrowed from Latin calvus (“bald, hairless”) (of unclear origin, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *kl̥h₂wós or *kalw- (“bald; naked”), from a root *kl̥H- + *-wós (suffix forming adjectives from verb stems)) + -ous (suffix forming adjectives from nouns, denoting possession or presence of a quality).
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