labyrinth
/ˈlæb.ə.ɹɪnθ/ sustantivo C2En español: laberinto, dédalo
- A complicated irregular network of passages or paths, especially underground or covered, in which it is difficult to find one's way.
- A maze formed by paths separated by high hedges.
- A structure similar to a maze, but containing only one path with no branches, as distinguished from a maze which contains multiple branching paths
- Anything complicated and confusing in structure, arrangement, or character.
- A complex structure in the inner ear which contains the organs of hearing and balance, consisting of bony cavities (the bony labyrinth) filled with fluid and lined with sensitive membranes (the membranous labyrinth).
- An accessory respiratory organ of certain fish.
- Any of various satyrine butterflies of the genus Neope.
Plural labyrinths
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We rattled through an endless labyrinth of gas-lit streets until we emerged into Farrington Street.
It is, as I have said, a labyrinth of an old house, especially the original wing, which is now practically uninhabited; but we ransacked every room and cellar without discovering the least sign of the missing man.
He then endeavored to re-enter the marvellous grottos, but they had suddenly receded, and now the path became a labyrinth, and then the entrance vanished, and in vain did he tax his memory for the magic and mysterious word which opened the splendid caverns of Ali Baba to the Arabian fisherman.
Then following the clew that, in the hands of the Abbé Faria, had been so skilfully used to guide him through the Dædalian labyrinth of probabilities, he thought that the Cardinal Spada, anxious not to be watched, had entered the creek, concealed his little barque, followed the line marked by the notches in the rock, and at the end of it had buried his treasure.
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