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flavescent [flavescent 词源字典]: "Yellowish or turning yellow", Mid 19th century: from Latin flavescent- 'turning yellow', from the verb flavescere, from flavus 'yellow'.[flavescent etymology, flavescent origin, 英语词源]
figuration: "Ornamentation by means of figures or designs", Middle English (in the senses 'outline' and 'making of arithmetical figures'): from Latin figuratio(n-), from figurare 'to form or fashion', from figura (see figure).
foliaceous: "Of or resembling a leaf or leaves", Mid 17th century: from Latin foliaceus 'leafy' (from folium 'leaf') + -ous.
fanfaronade: "Arrogant or boastful talk", Mid 17th century: from French fanfaronnade, from fanfaron 'braggart', from fanfare (see fanfare).
famulus: "An assistant or servant, especially one working for a magician or scholar", Mid 19th century: from Latin, 'servant'.
fankle: "Entangle", Late Middle English: from Scots fank 'coil of rope' + -le⁴.
fipple: "The mouthpiece of a recorder or similar wind instrument which is blown endwise, in which a thin channel cut through a block directs a stream of air against a sharp edge. The term has been applied to various parts of this, including the block and the channel", Early 17th century: perhaps related to Icelandic flipi 'horse's lip'.
flews: "The thick hanging lips of a bloodhound or similar dog", Late 16th century: of unknown origin.
force-ripe: "(Of a person) old or mature in certain respects without having developed fully in others", By association with a fruit that has ripened by forcing.
frondeur: "A political rebel", French, literally 'slinger', used to denote a rebel taking part in the Fronde.
futhark: "The runic alphabet", Mid 19th century: from letters corresponding to the first six letters of the ancient runic alphabet: f, u, th, a (or o), r, k.
frigidarium: "A cold room in an ancient Roman bath", Latin.
foram: "= foraminiferan", Late 19th cent.; earliest use found in Geological Magazine. Shortened from foraminifer.
fossa (1): "A shallow depression or hollow", Mid 17th century: from Latin, literally 'ditch', feminine past participle of fodere 'to dig'.
fossa (2): "A large nocturnal reddish-brown catlike mammal of the civet family, found in the rainforests of Madagascar", Mid 19th century: from Malagasy fosa.
fulguration: "The destruction of small growths or areas of tissue using diathermy", Mid 17th century (usually plural in the sense 'flashes of lightning'): from Latin fulguratio(n-) 'sheet lightning', from fulgur 'lightning'. sense 1 dates from the early 20th century.
foliose: "(Of a lichen) having a lobed, leaf-like shape", Early 18th century: from Latin foliosus, from folium 'leaf'.
ferrate: "A salt in which the anion contains both iron (typically ferric iron) and oxygen", Mid 19th century: from Latin ferrum 'iron' + -ate¹.
föhn: "A hot southerly wind on the northern slopes of the Alps", Mid 19th century: from German, based on Latin (ventus) Favonius 'mild west wind', Favonius being the Roman personification of the west or west wind.
floozy: "A girl or a woman who has many casual sexual partners", Early 20th century: perhaps related to flossy or to dialect floosy 'fluffy'. More These days floozy (or floozie) has a dated feel, and is only really used in jokey contexts. It is not that old a word, though, and does not seem to have been used before the 20th century. It might come from the English dialect word floosy, meaning ‘fluffy, soft’, or from flossy (mid 19th century), which is literally ‘like silk, silky’ but can mean ‘saucy, cheeky’, or ‘showy, flashy’ in the USA.