glossa

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The tongue, or lingua, especially of an insect.
    — They wished to see what Holy would do with the glossa. “The innocent will tell no lies.” The organ eventually had been divided into nineteen sections, distributed, and ingested. “We swallow your lies and cause them to build our powers.”
  2. Unintelligible ecstatic speech.
    — This pattern does not hold in the glossas we have examined: [th] occurs where we expect [], as in the “word” kita in our sample text, and [] occurs freely in other American glossas as an independent sound unit,[…]

词形变化

glossae plural glossas plural

词汇关系

相关词
paraglossa

词源

From the Ancient Greek γλῶσσᾰ (glôssă, “tongue”). Doublet of gloss.
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