单词 | geoffroy |
释义 | Geoffroyn. 1. Used in the genitive to designate species and varieties of animal collected or described by Étienne or Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, or named in their honour. ΚΠ 1827 E. Griffith et al. Cuvier's Animal Kingdom V. 80 Geoffroy's Nycteris. 1843 J. E. Gray List Specimens Mammalia Brit. Mus. 21 Geoffroy's Tailless Bat. Anoura Geoffroyi. 1874 Nature 29 Oct. 530/1 Two Geoffroy's Doves (Peristera geoffroyi ) from the Island of Fernando de Noronha. 1890 H. Seebohm Birds Japanese Empire 310 Geoffroy's Sand-Plover is a very rare accidental straggler to Japan. 1916 Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 1915 67 593 Additions to the Museum... Geoffroy's Spider Monkey (Ateles geoffroyi). 1963 Amer. Midland Naturalist 70 213 Of these, Geoffroy's tamarin (Saguinus geoffroyi)..and Darling's rat (Diplomys darlingi) live only in Panamá and eastward into South America. 2004 Time Out 25 Aug. 55/1 Three state-of-the-art enclosures..house meerkats, oriental short-clawed otters and Geoffroy's marmosets. 2. Geoffroy's bat n. any of several bats collected or described by Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire; esp. the notch-eared bat, Myotis emarginatus, of southern Europe, North Africa, and south-west Asia.The notch-eared bat was described and named (as Vespertilio emarginatus) by É. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire in 1806. Other species include (in quot. 1829) Nycteris thebaica, (in quot. 19041) Anoura geoffroyi, and (in quot. 19042) Sturnira lilium. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > order Chiroptera or bat > [noun] > unspecified and miscellaneous type of blude-black1647 music-stamper1713 red bat1775 Geoffroy's bat1829 reddish-grey bat1837 notch-eared bat1840 pachyote1865 notched-eared bat1871 valve-tailed bat1871 Negro-bat1885 1829 Q. Jrnl. Sci., Lit. & Art 27 269 (table) Nycteris Geoffroyi. Geoffroy's bat. 1904 G. G. Elliot Land & Sea Mammals Middle Amer. & W. Indies IV. ii. 682 Geoffroy's Bat. Type locality. Brazil. 1904 G. G. Elliot Land & Sea Mammals Middle Amer. & W. Indies IV. ii. 715 Geoffroy's Bat. Type locality. Paraguay. 1980 G. Corbet & D. Ovenden Mammals Brit. & Europe 32 Geoffroy's bat. Myotis emarginatus. Small, reddish brown; sharply angled step in hind margin of ear. 2008 G. Gorman Central & Eastern European Wildlife 20 (caption) Geoffroy's bats often roost in buildings rather than ‘natural sites’. 3. Geoffroy's cat n. a small wild cat, Leopardus geoffroyi, having a fawn or greyish coat marked with black spots and found in southern South America. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Felidae (feline) > [noun] > genus Felis > felis geoffroyi (Geoffroy's cat) wood-cat1791 Geoffroy's cat1870 1870 Proc. Zool. Soc. liii. 796 A fine specimen of Geoffroy's Cat (Felis geoffroii),..obtained from Paraguay. 1906 Westm. Gaz. 30 Apr. 4/3 A nice example of Geoffroy's Cat may now be seen in the Small Mammals' House at the Zoo. 1961 G. Durrell Whispering Land (1965) v. 124 It was a baby Geoffroy's cat, a small species of wild cat which is getting increasingly rare in South America. 2006 Jrnl. Mammalogy 87 1132 We examined the numerical and spatial responses of Geoffroy's cats (Oncifelis geoffroyi) to a prey decline in central Argentina. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1827 |
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