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词根词缀:scroful-, scrofulo-

【来源及含义】Latin: breeding sow

【相关描述】In the extended sense, it pertains to scrofula, a tubercular swelling, especially of the lymphatic glands [so named, perhaps, because the swelling resembles the shape of a sow or a female hog]).

【同源单词】scrofula, scrofuloderma, scrofulous, scrofulous abscess

词根词缀:-ulous, -ulously

【来源及含义】Latin: a suffix; tending to do, inclined to; full of

【同源单词】acidulous, bibulous, cavernulous, circumnebulous, credible, credulous