| 释义 |
quoll|kwɒl|
[Aboriginal name.]
The ‘native cat’ (Dasyurus macrurus) of Australia.
1770J. Hawkesworth Voy. (1773) III. 626, I can add only one more [animal], resembling a polecat, which the natives call Quoll. 1855in Ogilvie Suppl. 1924Truth (Sydney) 27 Apr. 6 Quoll, aboriginal name of native cat. 1970Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 15 June 12/5 In 1955, during intensive searches for taipans in scrubs and huge lantana thickets at Chatsworth near Gympie, I was astonished when I captured a savage little quoll (native cat) almost a thousand miles south of what I thought was its home country. 1978Ibid. 18 Feb. 18/8 And talking of this native cat or Quoll, it is a marsupial and a carnivore and it is a clever and persistent hunter. |