ringlet

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A small ring.
  2. A lock, tress.
    — Her hair was in ringlets.
  3. Any of various butterflies with small rings on the wings, in the tribe Satyrini of the family Nymphalidae, such as Aphantopus hyperantus.
动词 v.
  1. To form into ringlets. transitive
    — "It's very becoming!" said Pollie coaxingly, taking his curly head, which she had been brushing and ringleting for the last half hour, all damp, into her arms.
  2. To surround or encircle like a ringlet. transitive
    — I think now that if it had gripped me with those suckers, I would have gone out into the mist too. But it didn't. It grabbed Norm. And the third tentacle ringleted his other ankle. Now he was being pulled away from me.

词形变化

ringlets plural ringlets present,singular,third-person ringleting participle,present ringleted participle,past ringleted past

词汇关系

衍生词
common ringlet Darwin ringlet mountain ringlet orange ringlet ringlety

词源

词源 1
From ring + -let. Compare Middle English ryngyl, ryngyll, rengel (“ringlet”).
词源 2
From ring + -let. Compare Middle English ryngyl, ryngyll, rengel (“ringlet”).
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