粵

年nin4輪leon4

simp年轮
nin4 leon4nián lún

English

  1. annual ring
  2. growth ring
  3. annual ring (of a tree); the growth rings formed by the increase in age of a tree

粵語 — Cantonese

  1. 樹木年份增加所形成嘅環狀紋理,每一環代表樹木已經生長咗一年

Examples

  • 科学家研究了树木年轮的数据。

    The scientists looked at tree-ring data.

    Tatoeba · jan_OkulaJu CC BY

  • 我数了一下,这样一棵松树有三百多圈年轮。而砍倒它只需要15分钟。

    I counted. A pine tree like this has over three hundred annual rings, yet it took only 15 minutes to cut it down.

    Tatoeba · jan_OkulaJu CC BY

Sources: cc-cedict, words.hk

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