| 单词 | earth wolf |
| 释义 | > as lemmasearth wolf earth wolf n. [after South African Dutch aardwolf aardwolf n.] the aardwolf, Proteles cristatus (family Hyaenidae).Now chiefly in glosses of aardwolf. ΚΠ 1796 tr. F. Le Vaillant New Trav. Afr. II. 323 Beside these hyænas and the jackals..I remarked the cry of some other animal. My people distinguished it by the name of the earth-wolf. I do not know it. 1833 Penny Cycl. I. 4/2 The genus proteles contains but a single species, the Aard-wolf or earth-wolf.., so called by the European colonists in the neighbourhood of Algoa Bay in South Africa. 1898 Daily News 19 Jan. 5/4 A curious pair has come to live in the Zoo—specimens of the African Aard Wolf, which means Earth Wolf. 1988 J. Branford in E. G. Stanley & T. F. Hoad Words for Robert Burchfield's 65th Birthday 75 The name [sc. ‘wolf’] has not survived in English on its own, but it is still found in compounds like strandwolf (beach wolf), streepwolf (striped wolf), and aardwolf (earth wolf, the maned jackal). < as lemmas |
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