pellet
中文来自 ECDICT
- n.
- 颗粒状物，小子弹，小药丸
- vt.
- 使成颗粒，使成团，用子弹打
演变路径（由近及远）
词源说明
Inherited from Middle English pelote, pelet, from Old French pelote (“small ball”), from Vulgar Latin *pilotta, diminutive of Latin pila (“ball”). Doublet of pelota.
释义（英文）
名词 Noun
- A small, compressed, hard chunk of matter.
- A lead projectile used as ammunition in rifled air guns.
- Compressed byproduct of digestion regurgitated by owls and many other birds of prey, which serves as a waste disposal mechanism for indigestible parts of food, such as fur and bones.
- (heraldry) A roundel sable (black circular spot).
- One of the short conductive tubes in a Pelletron