casque

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /kɑːsk/    美 /kæsk/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A helmet.
    — He beheld his child dashed to pieces, and almost buried under an enormous helmet, an hundred times more large than any casque ever made for human being, and shaded with a proportionable quantity of black feathers.
  2. A hard structure on the head of some birds, such as cassowaries, some hornbills and guineafowl, and some reptiles such as chameleons and basilisks.
    — Helmeted Hornbill, Rhinoplax vigil (CR): Restricted to the Thai-Malay Peninsula, Sumatra and Borneo, this is the only hornbill species whose casque is solid keratin and therefore carvable.
  3. Synonym of galea.

词形变化

casques plural

词汇关系

衍生词
casqued casqueless uncasque

词源

Borrowed from French casque. Doublet of casco and cask.
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