sexi-
1
variant of sex-:
sexivalent.
sexi-
（元音前亦作 sex- ）
combining form
- six; having six表示“六”, “有六个”：
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sexivalent.
词源
from Latin sex 'six'.
1860 Worcester *Sexifid.
1847 Blackw. Mag. LXI. 756The delicate monsters, the savoury *sexipedes, with whom Typee and his comrades had to wage incessant war.
1889 MacColl Mr. Stranger's Sealed Packet v,All the creatures..were quadrupeds; there were no quintipeds, sexipeds, or anything of that sort among them.
1854 Emerson Lett. &Soc. Aims (1883) 35The decasyllabic quatrain, or the octosyllabic with alternate *sexisyllabic, or other rhythms.
1855 Ogilvie Suppl. ,*Sexisyllable.
1872 Phil. Mag. XLIII. 260Carbon is quadrivalent; two carbon atoms may unite by mutually saturating 1, 2, or 3 pairs of affinities, thus giving rise to a radical C2, which may be *sexi-, quadri-, or bivalent accordingly: thus, C2H6, C2H4, C2H2.
1874 J. P. Cooke NewChem. 244The four sexivalent atoms of sulphur are the centres of subordinate groups connected with this nucleus.
sexi-
combining form. a form of sex-, as in sexivalent.
sexi-
— see sex-
— see sex-