tumour: [16] Tumour is one of a small family of English words that go back ultimately to Latin tumēre ‘swell’. Others include contumacy, contumely, tumid ‘swollen’ [16], and tumult [15]. => contumacy, contumely, thigh, thumb, tumid, tumult
tumour (n.)
chiefly British English spelling of tumor; see -or.
雙語例句
1. A child was wrongly diagnosed as having a bone tumour.
一個孩子被誤診為患了骨瘤.
來自柯林斯例句
2. He died in 1984 of an unsuspected brain tumour.