a pencil or stick of coloured chalk or wax, used for drawing (绘画用的)彩色粉笔;彩色蜡笔
verb
[with obj.]draw with a crayon or crayons (用彩色粉笔或彩色蜡笔)绘画 Will crayoned a picture on a legal pad. 威尔在标准拍纸簿上绘了一幅彩画。 [no obj.]a child crayoning in a colouring book. 在涂色画册上画画的小孩。
语源
mid 17th cent.: from French, from craie 'chalk', from Latin creta