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axolotl (n.)[axolotl 词源字典]: 1786, genus of Mexican salamanders, from Spanish, from Nahuatl, literally "servant of water," from atl "water" + xolotl "slippery or wrinkled one, servant, slave" [see Frances Karttunen, "An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl"].[axolotl etymology, axolotl origin, 英语词源]
corrugated (adj.): 1620s, "wrinkled" (of skin, etc.), past participle adjective from corrugate. Meaning "bent into curves or folds" (of iron, cardboard, etc., for elasticity and strength) is from 1853.
crepe (n.): 1797, from French crêpe, from Old French crespe (14c.), from Latin crispa, fem. of crispus "curled, wrinkled" (see crisp (adj.)). Meaning "small, thin pancake" is from 1877. Crepe paper is first attested 1895.
crisp (adj.): Old English crisp "curly," from Latin crispus "curled, wrinkled, having curly hair," from PIE root *(s)ker- (3) "to turn, bend" (see ring (n.)). It began to mean "brittle" 1520s, for obscure reasons, perhaps based on what happens to flat things when they are cooked. Figurative sense of "neat, brisk" is from 1814; perhaps a separate word. As a noun, from late 14c. Potato crisps (the British version of U.S. potato chips) is from 1929.
drupe (n.): 1753, from Modern Latin drupa "stone-fruit," from Latin drupa (oliva) "wrinkled olive," from Greek dryppa, short for drypepes "tree-ripened," from drys "tree" + pepon "ripe" (see pumpkin).
wrinkle (v.): early 15c. (transitive), probably from stem of Old English gewrinclod "wrinkled, crooked, winding," past participle of gewrinclian "to wind, crease," from perfective prefix ge- + -wrinclian "to wind," from Proto-Germanic *wrankjan (see wrench (v.)). Intransitive sense from 1610s. Related: Wrinkled; wrinkling.
wizened: "Shrivelled or wrinkled with age", Early 16th century: past participle of archaic wizen 'shrivel', of Germanic origin.
rhytidome: "In a stem or root: the outer part of the bark, composed of the periderm and the layers of dead tissue exterior to this", Mid 19th cent.; earliest use found in American Journal Pharmacy. From scientific Latin rhytidoma, probably from Greek ῥυτίδωμα wrinkle, in scholia (medieval Greek or earlier) on Aristophanes Plutus 1052, 1066 from ancient Greek ῥυτιδοῦν to make wrinkled, shrivel up (from ῥυτιδ-, ῥυτίς wrinkle from the same base as ῥυσός shrivelled, wrinkled + -ις, perhaps via a verbal adjective in -τός) + -μα.