| 释义 |
‖ daman|ˈdæmən|
[From the Arabic name daman isrāīl, sheep or lamb of Israel.]
The Syrian rock-badger or ‘cony’ of Scripture (Hyrax Syriacus); the name is also extended to the species found at the Cape (H. Capensis).
1738T. Shaw Trav. Barb. & Levant. 336 The Daman Israel is an Animal likewise of Mount Libanus, though common in other places of this Country..We have..presumptive Proof that this Creature is the Saphan of the Scriptures. 1790Bruce Trav. I. x. 241, I went ashore here [Cape Mahomet] and shot a small animal among the rocks, called Daman Israel or Israel's Lamb; I do not know why, for it has no resemblance to the sheep kind. 1825Gore tr. Blumenbach's Man. Nat. Hist. iv. 47 The Daman, Cape Hyrax. 1835Kirby Hab. & Inst. Anim. II. xxiv. 497 The skin..is nearly naked, except in the case of the swine, the daman, the mammoth and some others. |