单词 | holluschickie |
释义 | holluschickien. With plural agreement. Young males of the northern, Pribilof, or Alaska fur seal, Callorhinus ursinus; = bachelor n. 4c. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Pinnipedia (seal, sea lion, or walrus) > [noun] > family Ostaridae (eared seal) > genus Callorhinus (fur-seal) > male or young pup1815 bachelor1874 holluschickie1874 sekach1875 1874 Harper's Mag. May 801/2 To the right and left of the breeding grounds stretch sand-beaches..upon which the ‘hollus-chickie’, or the bachelor seals, lie by tens of thousands. 1880 H. W. Elliott Rep. Seal Islands Alaska 45 The ‘holluschickie’ are the champion swimmers of all the seal-tribe. 1894 R. Kipling Jungle Bk. 97 They [sc. seals] were called the holluschickie—the bachelors. 1896 R. Kipling Seven Seas (1896) 70 But he'll lie down on the killing-grounds where the holluschickie go. 1901 Munsey's Mag. June 355/1 The holluschickie who have reached the age when they contemplate matrimony. 1929 Encycl. Brit. IX. 952/1 The young males or bachelors (holloschickie). This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1874 |
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