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A gladiolus is a tall garden plant with long, sword-shaped leaves and a spike of large, coloured flowers — pink, red, yellow, purple, white. plant the corms for summer colour; florists use the long stems in upright bunches. The Latin name means “little sword”, which is a joke about those leaves; English sometimes calls it a sword lily for the same reason. You meet the word in gardens and flower shops, not in ordinary small talk, unless you grow flowers. People often say gladioli when they mean more than one, or casually “glads”.
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組成A learned borrowing from Latin gladiolus, “little sword” or “sword lily”, the diminutive of gladius, “sword”. Middle English had gladiol, which gave the older English word gladiole.
同家族的字
- gladiatorboth go back to Latin gladius, “sword”: the fighter’s weapon, and the plant’s sword-like leaf
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
gladiolusnoun/ɡlædɪˈəʊləs/
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anatomymedicinesciencesThe center part of the sternum.
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Any of several flowering plants, of the genus Gladiolus, having sword-shaped leaves and showy flowers on spikes; gladiola.
- Hester Earle and Violet Wayne were moving about the aisle with bundles of wheat-ears and streamers of ivy, for the harvest thanksgiving was shortly to be celebrated, while the vicar stood waiting for their directions on the chancel steps with a great handful of crimson gladioli.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。