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dosa [dosa 词源字典]: "(In southern Indian cooking) a pancake made from rice flour and ground pulses, typically served with a spiced vegetable filling", From Tamil tōcai.[dosa etymology, dosa origin, 英语词源]
dinoflagellate: "A single-celled organism with two flagella, occurring in large numbers in marine plankton and also found in fresh water. Some produce toxins that can accumulate in shellfish, resulting in poisoning when eaten", Late 19th century (as an adjective): from modern Latin Dinoflagellata (plural), from Greek dinos 'whirling' + Latin flagellum 'small whip' (see flagellum).
deserts: "What a person deserves with regard to reward or (more usually) punishment", Middle English: via Old French desert, from deservir 'serve well' (see deserve).
discarnate: "(Of a person or being) not having a physical body", Late 19th century: from dis- 'without' + Latin caro, carn- 'flesh' or late Latin carnatus 'fleshy'.
digitate: "Shaped like a spread hand", Mid 17th century: from Latin digitatus, from digitus 'finger, toe'.
devoir: "A person’s duty", Middle English: from Old French deveir, from Latin debere 'owe'. The spelling, and subsequently the pronunciation, was changed under the influence of modern French devoir.
dolichocephalic: "Having a relatively long skull (typically with the breadth less than 80 (or 75) per cent of the length)", Mid 19th century: from Greek dolikhos 'long' + -cephalic.
debouch: "Emerge from a confined space into a wide, open area", Mid 18th century: from French déboucher, from dé- (expressing removal) + bouche 'mouth' (from Latin bucca 'cheek').
dissertate: "Discourse on a particular subject", Mid 18th century: from Latin dissertat-, from dissertare 'to continue to discuss'.
duo-: "Two; having two", From Latin.
dacoit: "(In India or Burma (Myanmar)) a member of a band of armed robbers", From Hindi ḍakait, from ḍakaitī 'robbery by a gang'.
decidability: "The property of a statement, formula, etc., being decidable", 1930s; earliest use found in Journal of Symbolic Logic. From decidable + -ity, partly after German Entscheidbarkeit.
discalced: "Denoting or belonging to one of several strict orders of Catholic friars or nuns who go barefoot or are shod only in sandals", Mid 17th century: variant, influenced by French déchaux, of earlier discalceated, from Latin discalceatus, from dis- (expressing removal) + calceatus (from calceus 'shoe').
diaphoresis: "Sweating, especially to an unusual degree as a symptom of disease or a side effect of a drug", Late 17th century: via late Latin from Greek, from diaphorein 'carry off, sweat out', from dia 'through' + phorein 'carry'.
demonstrableness: "= demonstrability", Mid 17th cent.; earliest use found in Thomas White (d. 1676), Roman Catholic priest and philosopher. From demonstrable + -ness.
didactics: "The science, art, or practice of teaching", Mid 17th cent.; earliest use found in Christopher Wase (1627–1690), schoolmaster and classical scholar. From didactic: see -ic.
disputable: "Not established as a fact, and so open to question or debate", Late 15th century: from Latin disputabilis, from the verb disputare 'to estimate', later 'to dispute' (see dispute).
Dieu et mon droit: "God and my right (the motto of the British monarch)", French.
diabetes insipidus: "A disease in which the secretion of or response to the pituitary hormone vasopressin is impaired, resulting in the production of very large quantities of dilute urine, often with dehydration and insatiable thirst", Late 19th century: from diabetes + Latin insipidus 'insipid'.
down-low: "On the quiet; in secret", 1990s: originally in African-American usage.