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語源

From Ancient Greek ἐπί (epí) + κανθός (kanthós)

形容詞

epicanthic (not comparable)

1. (anatomy, of a fold of skin) That partially covers the inner angle of the eye.
   • 1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, p.215:

     Along the dimming shore of broken fence and rubble and over the sparse colonies of jakelike dwellings a new curse falling, a plague of bats, small basilisks pugnosed with epicanthic eyes and upreared dogs' ears filled with hair and bellies filled with agony.

   • 2020, N. K. Jemisin, The City We Became, Orbit, page 331:

     Still white, but this time there is a hint of epicanthic fold about her eyes.