Harlingen, the Netherlands
Cymbidium macrorrhizum Lindl.
1. (coll.) dim-witted2. foolish3. absent-minded
chameleon plant; fish mint (Houttuynia cordata), esp. its edible rhizome
Guernsey (Channel Islands)
1. Heineken (Dutch brewing company)2. see also 喜力[xǐ lì]
the Schengen area, a passport-free zone in Europe
1. to eavesdrop2. to listen in secret to sb's conversations
(linguistics) analytic language
vetiver grass (Vetiveria zizanoides)
Scheveningen, resort in Den Haag (The Hague), Netherlands
Eriugena, John Scottus (c. 810-880) Irish poet, theologian, and philosopher of Neoplatonism
root canal therapy (dentistry)
1. who do (you) think (you) are?2. who does (he, she etc) think (he, she) is?
erhua variant of 听墙根[tīng qiáng gēn]
字根通用码 字根通用碼 zì gēn tōng yòng mǎ 1. common coding for components of Chinese character2. same as Zheng coding 郑码[zhèng mǎ]
氢氧根离子 氫氧根離子 qīng yǎng gēn lí zǐ hydroxide ion OH-
矮茎朱砂根 矮莖朱砂根 ǎi jīng zhū shā gēn short-stem Ardisia (Ardisia brevicaulis)
erhua variant of 追根究底[zhuī gēn jiū dǐ]
埃尔朗根纲领 埃爾朗根綱領 āi ěr lǎng gēn gāng lǐng Felix Klein's Erlangen program (1872) on geometry and group theory
弗兰西斯·培根 弗蘭西斯·培根 fú lán xī sī · péi gēn Francis Bacon (1561-1626), English Renaissance philosopher and early scientist
拔根汗毛比腰粗 bá gēn hàn máo bǐ yāo cū 1. lit. a hair plucked from (person A) would be thicker than (person B)'s waist (idiom)2. fig. A is far richer (or more powerful) than B3. (used in a pattern such as A拔根汗毛比B的腰粗[bá gēn hàn máo bǐ de yāo cū])
法兰西斯·培根 法蘭西斯·培根 fǎ lán xī sī · péi gēn Francis Bacon (1561-1626), English Renaissance philosopher and early scientist
树高千丈，叶落归根 樹高千丈，葉落歸根 shù gāo qiān zhàng , yè luò guī gēn 1. fig. a tree may grow a thousand zhang high, but its leaves return to their roots (proverb)2. fig. everything has its ancestral home3. in old age, an expatriate returns home
古根罕喷气推进研究中心 古根罕噴氣推進研究中心 gǔ gēn hǎn pēn qì tuī jìn yán jiū zhōng xīn 1. Guggenheim Aeronautical Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology (GALCIT, from 1926)2. Guggenheim Jet Propulsion Center (from 1943)
压死骆驼的最后一根稻草 壓死駱駝的最後一根稻草 yā sǐ luò tuo de zuì hòu yī gēn dào cǎo 1. the straw that broke the camel’s back (idiom)2. the final straw
see 追根溯源[zhuī gēn sù yuán]
variant of 盘根错节[pán gēn cuò jié]
一根绳上的蚂蚱 一根繩上的螞蚱 yī gēn shéng shàng de mà zha see 一条绳上的蚂蚱[yī tiáo shéng shàng de mà zha]
树高千丈，落叶归根 樹高千丈，落葉歸根 shù gāo qiān zhàng , luò yè guī gēn see 樹高千丈，树高千丈，叶落归根[shù gāo qiān zhàng yè luò guī gēn]