isthmus
isthmus 英 [ˈɪsməs] 美 [ˈɪsməs]
n. 地峡；管峡
名词复数:isthmuss
- An isthmus is a land bridge, a narrow strip of land that stretches across a body of water to connect two larger land masses.
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- n. 地峡；管峡
- isthmus (n.) 1550s, from Latin isthmus, from Greek isthmos "narrow passage, narrow neck of land between two seas," originally especially that of Corinth, a word of unknown origin. Perhaps from eimi "to go" + suffix -thmo (compare ithma "a step, movement").
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