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单词 hermit sheep
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hermit sheep
3. Applied to various animals of solitary habits, as the hermit-crab, the hermit-bird; see Compounds 2. In Australia and New Zealand spec. of a sheep; also hermit sheep.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Crustacea > [noun] > subclass Malacostraca > division Thoracostraca > order Decapoda > suborder Macrura > member of family Paguridae of Anomura
hermit-fish1605
hermit1661
soldier1666
soldier-crab1668
wrong-heir1730
hermit-crab1736
pagurian1840
hermit-lobster1850
pirate1857
paguroid1879
Jack-in-the-box1889
pagurid1893
pagurine1899
the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > genus Ovus > [noun] > Ovus Aries (domestic sheep) > defined by habits or actions
hermit1874
placer1921
1661 I. Walton Compl. Angler (ed. 3) i. 33 There is a fish called a Hermit, that at a certain age gets into a dead fishes shell, and like a Hermite dwells there alone.
1674 N. Cox Gentleman's Recreation iv. 230 The Hermit is a fish that..will..dwell secluded from all company.
1862 J. G. Wood Illustr. Nat. Hist. (new ed.) II. 239 All the Hermits build a very curious and beautiful nest.
1862 J. G. Wood Illustr. Nat. Hist. (1865) III. 603 If two Hermits be removed from their houses, and put into a rock pool..the combats which take place..are as fierce and determined as any.
1874 A. Bathgate Colonial Experiences xv. 212 A sheep which has been badly tutued and recovers, loses its gregarious habits, and becomes what the shepherds call a ‘hermit’.
1917 E. Glen Six Little N. Zealanders vii. 95 They brought in a ‘hermit’ sheep which lived by itself, and had been overlooked in the last muster.
1933 L. G. D. Acland in Press (Christchurch, N.Z.) 28 Oct. 15/7 Hermit, a single sheep which for some reason takes to living by himself, away from the mob.
1966 G. W. Turner Eng. Lang. in Austral. & N.Z. viii. 165 Sheep that recovered [from eating tutu] sometimes became hermit sheep, losing their gregarious habits.
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