innominate bone
/ɪˌnɒmɪnət ˈbəʊn//ɪˌnɑmɪnət ˈboʊn/
构词拆解
innominate
词干
‘having no name, nameless, unnamed’
bone
词干
词源链
- 英语English
innominate bone
词源说明
From innominate (“having no name, nameless, unnamed”, adjective) + bone (noun), possibly a calque of Late Latin os innōminātum. It has been suggested that the bone “remains unnamed and unnameable” because it “is of so complex and irregular a form, that it bears no perceptible resemblance to any other known object”.