porrectionとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /pɔˈɹɛkʃən/
• 韻: -ɛkʃən

名詞

porrection (plural porrections)

1. (archaic) The act of stretching forth, or holding forward, as if offering or handing over.
   • 1668, John Menzeis, Papimus Lucifugus […] ‎:

     the Porrection of the instruſments

   • 1867, A. R. Wallace, letter to Charles Darwin:

     The two flaps on the free end of the underlip clasp little clusters of pollen grains between them and grind them behind by quick alternate porrections and retractions

参照

• “porrection”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

アナグラム

• correption, renotropic