| 词汇 | nose |
| 词源 | nose; mucus. Our word nose derives directly from the Anglo- Saxon nosu, but can be traced back to the Anglo-Saxon nasa, which meant “dual or double” and is the tap root for nosu, the nose having two nostrils. The nose’s mucus, from the Latin mu- cus, “slime from the nose,” gives us the word mucilage for glue, which someone thought resembled it. |
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