单词 | hog deer |
释义 | hog deern. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > [noun] > family Tragulidae (chevrotain) musk-goat1601 musk deer1673 pelandok1701 hog deer1711 Guinea deer1752 chevrotain1774 mouse deer1778 kanchil1822 napoh1822 tragule1859 water chevrotain1866 traguline1872 deerlet1878 tragulid1889 traguloid1891 1711 C. Lockyer Acct. Trade India ii. 49 Hog-deer are common in the Bazar; these the Country People catch in Burrows in the Woods; they are about the size of Rabbets, Hog-headed, and shank'd and hoof'd like Deer. 1784 W. Marsden Hist. Sumatra (ed. 2) 94 There is variety of the deer species; of which some are very large. Wild hog: babee ootan. Hog deer: babee rooso. Small and delicate animal; one of those which produce the bezoar. b. A short-legged, heavily-built deer, Axis porcinus, having a yellow-brown coat with darker underparts, which is native to the grasslands and paddy fields of the Asian mainland and introduced in Australia. Cf. hog stag n.There is little evidence that the name has been used for the related spotted deer, A. axis (the ‘A. maculatus’ of quot. 1835). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > types of deer > [noun] > unspecified and miscellaneous types of hog deer1771 hog stag1780 1771 T. Pennant Synopsis Quadrupeds 52 Porcine Deer..called, from the thickness of their body, Hog Deer. 1835 W. Jardine Nat. Hist. Ruminating Animals (Naturalist's Libr: Mammalia III) I. 170 This animal [sc. Axis porcinus], with the preceding [sc. Axis maculatus], seems to go under the name of Hog-deer. 1883 Science 16 Mar. 181/2 A pair of antlers of the hog-deer (Axis porcinus) is described. 1930 W. M. Mann Wild Animals in & out of Zoo xv. 184 Our herd of the Indian hog deer was started from specimens that had been raised in the New York Zoological Park. 1971 S. H. Prater Bk. Indian Animals (ed. 3) xx. 291 The name Hog-deer has probably been suggested by the squat pig-like appearance of this animal and by its hog-like movements. 2004 RoyalAuto Feb. 26/1 We marvel at a herd of hog deer, an animal I've never even heard of, let alone seen. 2. The babirusa, Babyrousa babirussa, a wild pig found on Sulawesi and neighbouring islands. Cf. pig deer n. at pig n.1 Compounds 2b. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > order Artiodactyla (cloven-hoofed animals) > [noun] > group Suiformes (hippos and pigs) > family Suidae (swine) > genus Babiroussa (babirussa) babirusa1673 Indian hog1754 hog deer1798 stag-hog1827 pig deer1869 1798 S. H. Wilcocke in tr. J. P. Stavorinus Voy. E. Indies II. ii. iii. 351 (note) The babi-roussa, which is a Malay appellation, signifying hog-deer, partakes, as its name denotes, of the nature both of the hog and of the deer. 1812 J. Pinkerton Gen. Coll. Voy. & Trav. XI. 262 Among the wild animals, which inhabit the woods of the island Bouro, there is one which bears the name of babi-roussa, or the hog-deer. 1885 Amer. Naturalist 19 976 An explanation, new to us, of the use of the upturned and hooked teeth of the hog-deer (Babirusa). 2004 Jakarta Post 12 Mar. (Nexis) Also depicted on cave walls is the babirusa (pig-deer or hog-deer) with long legs and tusk curving upwards like horns. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1711 |
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