sharing a common boundary 有共同边界的;毗邻的,邻接的 the forty-eight conterminous United States. 四十八个相邻的合众国。 ■having the same area, context, or meaning 有相同范围(或背景,意义)的 a genealogy conterminous with the history of the USA. 和美国历史相同的系谱。
派生 conterminously adverb 语源
mid 17th cent.: from Latin conterminus (from con- 'with' + terminus 'boundary') + -ous. Compare with coterminous