lethal

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Any weapon that causes death.
  2. One of the higher alcohols of the paraffine series obtained from spermaceti as a white crystalline solid. uncountable
  3. An allele that causes the death of the organism that carries it.
形容词 adj.
  1. Of, pertaining to, or causing death; deadly; mortal; fatal.
    — Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine. The machine gun is so much more lethal than the bow and arrow that comparisons are meaningless.

词形变化

more lethal comparative most lethal superlative lethals plural

词源

词源 1
Learned borrowing from Latin lētālis (“deadly, mortal, fatal”), improperly written lēthālis, from lētum (“death”), improperly written as lēthum, from a supposed connection with Ancient Greek λήθη (lḗthē, “oblivion, forgetfulness”).
词源 2
Abbreviation of “lauric acid ethereal salt”, so called because it occurs in the ethereal salt of lauric acid.
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