单词 | anthropoglot |
释义 | anthropoglotn. rare. An animal with a tongue resembling that of a human, or able to imitate human speech; spec. a parrot. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Psittaciformes (parrots, etc.) > [noun] > parrot popinjaya1387 psittac?a1425 parrota1529 Poll1600 coxcomb bird1734 poll-parrot1768 Polly1826 anthropoglot1828 feather-top1891 psittacine1949 1771 Encycl. Brit. III. 327/1 Anthropoglottus, among zoologists, an appellation given to such animals as have tongues resembling that of mankind, particularly to the parrot kind.] 1828 N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Anthropoglot,..an animal which has a tongue resembling that of man, of which kind are parrots. 1832 D. J. Browne Etymol. Encycl. Anthropoglot,..In Zoology, an animal having a tongue resembling a man's, as the parrot. 1849 W. J. Broderip Zool. Recreations (new ed.) 64 The sound could hardly be termed more than an articulate whistle:—how different from the pronunciation of those anthropoglotts, the parrots. 1902 Ludington (Michigan) Chron. 15 Oct. 1/4 It truly was the chance of a life time to see..the screeming [sic] anthropoglot. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1828 |
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