词根:sit = food, grain, to sir
来自希腊语的sit 意为food,grain,to sir。
同源词:
1. parasite (是坐在旁边只吃食物的人 para(=beside) + sit(=food,grain))
n.寄生生物;<喻>寄生虫;食客
parasitic/parasitical adj.寄生的,寄食的;寄客的
He lives like a parasite. 他像寄生虫一样活着。
2. site
n.场所,地点;遗址;v.决定...的场所,为...选址
site for a new school 新学校位置
built on the site of an old fort 在过去的要塞位置上建立的
deliver materials to a building site 把材料运到建筑工地
Where have they decided to site the new factory ?他们把工厂的位置害在哪了?
词根词缀:athero-, ather-
【来源及含义】Greek: groats, meal, porridge; soft, pasty materials
【相关描述】This element used to mean "of or pertaining to a sebaceous cyst" and "of or pertaining to arteriosclerosis", the "thickening of the arteries".
【同源单词】atherectomy, atherogenesis, atherogenic, atheroma, atheromatous, atherome
词根词缀:gland-, glans-
【来源及含义】Latin: acorn; in medicine, gland, glans
【相关描述】Used in medicine to mean "gland", an aggregation of cells, specialized to secrete or excrete materials not related to their ordinary metabolic needs. Also, "glans" is a general term for a small rounded mass, or glandlike body. The plural of "glans" is "glandes".
【同源单词】axillary gland, biglandular, dysglandular, ecdysial gland, eglandulous, gland
词根词缀:spodo-, spod-
【来源及含义】Greek: ashes; waste materials
【相关词根词缀】 Cross references of word groups that are related, directly, indirectly, or partly to: "fire, burn, glow, or ashes": ars-, ard-; -bust; cand-, cend-; caust-, caut-; crema-; ciner-; ether-; flagr-; flam-; focus, foci-; fulg-; gehenna-; ign-; phleg-; phlog-; pyreto-, -pyrexia; pyr-; volcan-.
【同源单词】spodiomyelitis, spodium, spodogenous, spodogram, spodography, spodomancy