English Dictionary

nondescript

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈnɒndɪskɹɪpt/

名詞

イギリス英語

(chiefly biology) A species or other type of creature that has not been previously described or identified. / An undistinguished, unexceptional person or thing. / (UK) An unmarked police car.

日本語の意味

未記載または未発見の生物や種（主に生物学において） / 特に目立たず、凡庸な人物または物事 / 無標識のパトカー（イギリスにおける用法）

Biologists collected a nondescript from the deep reef, and genetic analysis confirmed it was new to science.

生物学者たちは深い礁から未記載種を採取し、遺伝子解析の結果、それが新種であることが確認された。

意味（1）

(chiefly biology) A species or other type of creature that has not been previously described or identified.

Imagination has given figure and character to centaurs, satyrs, and down to all the fairy tribe; but titles baffle even the powers of fancy, and are a chimerical non-descript.

意味（2）

An undistinguished, unexceptional person or thing.

In thoroughfares nigh the docks, any considerable seaport will frequently offer to view the queerest looking nondescripts from foreign parts.

意味（3）

(UK) An unmarked police car.

By a nice British compromise, the enforcement car — visible just then as a white spot on the television screen — has nothing externally to show its police affiliation, but unlike the CID's nondescripts, carries two large policemen in uniform.

nondescripts （ plural ）