英和和英

名詞

flying saucer (複数形 flying saucers)

1. (informal) A disc-shaped unidentified flying object or UFO; originally in reference to sightings by aviator Kenneth Arnold in Washington in 1947.

   Some connect the recent spate of flying saucer sightings with a rumored top-secret military aviation project.

   • 1950 December 6, The Sydney Morning Herald, page 3, column 5:

     An engram is NOT [...] One of the little green men Americans claim have crashed in flying saucers.

2. (science fiction) An alien interplanetary vessel, typically disc-shaped and of metallic construction.
3. A form of confectionery, a small spheroidal capsule of rice paper filled with sherbet.

同意語

• (flying craft): saucercraft

等位語

派生語

• flying saucer group

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