- 1結節的、結節狀的(醫學、植物等用語)
Nodular is a describing word for something that has small round raised parts, or that is made of them — the same little swellings called . A doctor may say a thyroid feels nodular, meaning the surface is not smooth but has little round lumps. A gardener may talk of nodular roots on beans, where tiny round swellings grow on the root. The word belongs to medical and scientific talk. In ordinary life people say bumpy, , or “it has little lumps.” Nodular is not itself the lump: the lump is the ; nodular tells you what something is like. It is also not a computer word, even though English has node in that world too.
組成From nodule + -ar. The ending -ar makes a describing word meaning “of or like” that thing.
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,摘錄並精簡格式,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。
nodularadj
- 1
Of or relating to a nodule or nodules.
- 2
Possessing, composed of, or similar in form to nodules.
- Loose nodular deposits of gold metal are commonly referred to as nuggets.
- The disease causes nodular black growths that may become pustular.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary,已精簡格式;依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用,改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。