TRUNK  植物幹幹

CENTRAL, TYPICALLY MOST BIG, PART of a PLANT TYPICALLY A TREE OR OF THE BODY OF AN ANIMAL
STILK
Hypernym
  • SPINESEQUENCE OF BONES FROM NECK TO ABDOMEN AND THE BODY PART SURROUNDING IT.
    • HIPLOWEST PART OF THE SPINE AND LOWER PART OF THE TRUNK ABOVE THE BUTTOCKS
      See also
      • STICKLONG, ROUND, STRAIGHT PIECE OF TIMBER.
        • ROOTPART of a PLANT that is TYPICALLY IN the SOIL AND that FEEDS the PLANT.
          • STEMIMPORTANT PLANT PART LEADS FROM ROOT TO BRANCHES ETC..
            Old Chinese Criteria
            1. The general word referring to the trunk of a plant, particularly of trees is gàn 幹.

            2. Běn 本 refers to the lower main bearing part of the trunk, and the word often includes the root.

            3. Zhū 株 refers to a truncated trunk, and the root can be implied in the meaning of the word. See ROOT

            Modern Chinese Criteria
            幹

            莖

            本

            梗

            rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH ／

            • Lateinische Synonyme und Etymologien ( DOEDERLEIN 1840) p.

              TRUNK

              stirps refers to the stock as the animating and supporting principal part of a tree in opposition to the branches and leaves growing from it and dependent upon it. COMARE 本

              truncus refers to the naked, dry part of the tree, in opposition to the branches and leves as its ornament.

            Words

            本  běn OC: pɯɯnʔ MC: puo̝n 5 Attributions

            Běn 本 refers to the lower main bearing part of the trunk, and the word often includes the root.

              Word relations
            • Oppos: 枝/BRANCH The standard word for any kind of branch, large or small, is zhī 枝 (ant. gàn 幹 "trunk"), a word etymologically related to zhī 肢 "limb".

              Syntactic words
            • nroot and trunk; trunk
            • nab.post-Nfigurativethe very "root and trunk of N"CH
            株  zhū OC: to MC: ʈi̯o 4 Attributions

            Zhū 株 refers to a truncated trunk, and the root can be implied in the meaning of the word. See ROOT

              Word relations
            • Oppos: 根/ROOT The current common word for a root of any kind is gēn 根, but the word also refers specifically to roots growing horizontally near the surface of the earth.

              Syntactic words
            • ntree stump
            幹  gàn OC: kaans MC: kɑn 3 Attributions

            The general word referring to the trunk of a plant, particularly of trees is gàn 幹.

              Syntactic words
            • nstem, trunk; shaft of arrow)
            • n{PRED}be the trunk; be a trunk
            榦  gàn MC: kanH OC: kaansCH 1 Attribution
              Syntactic words
            • nfigurativeabstract: basic sustaining part (of literary discourse)CH
            杌  wù OC: ŋɡluud MC: ŋuot 0 Attributions
              Syntactic words
            • napparently post-Han: completely lifeless treetrunk; dead tree
            身  shēn OC: qhjin MC: ɕin 0 Attributions
              Syntactic words
            • ntrunk of a tree/human body
              Click here to add pinyin MC:  OC: CH 0 Attributions
              Syntactic words
            • nfigurativeabstract: basic sustaining part (of literary discourse)CH

            Existing SW for

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