geoglyph

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈd͡ʒiːə(ʊ)ɡlɪf/    美 /ˈd͡ʒiːəɡlɪf/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A large-scale drawing or image made on the ground by arranging lines of stones, scratching the earth, etc., and often only fully visible from a distance or the air.
    — These, and almost 100 others stretched along the Colorado River in the California and Arizona deserts, are called geoglyphs or earth carvings by scientists. [...] Although their exact purpose and meaning are still a mystery, we do know these large and delicate geoglyphs are easily damaged by vehicles breaking through the desert surface and obliterating the figures.

词形变化

geoglyphs plural

词源

From geo- (“the Earth; geography”) + glyph (“figure carved in relief or incised”), modelled after petroglyph.
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