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单词 mampalon
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mampalonn.

Brit. /ˈmampəlɒn/, U.S. /ˈmɑmpəˌlɑn/
Forms: 1800s– mampalon, 1800s– mampelon.
Origin: Probably a borrowing from Dayak.
Etymology: Probably < Dayak.Compare:1917 Encyclopaedie van Nederlandsch-Indië I. 345 De wetenschappelijke naam is Cynogale bennetti Gray. Het dier, een der grootere leden van zijn familie, leeft op het Maleische Schiereiland en op Sumatra en Borneo (op Borneo wordt het doeroeng, in Zuid-Borneo door de Dajaks mampalon genoemd). [‘The scientific name is Cynogale bennetti Gray. The animal, one of the larger members of its family, inhabits the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, and Borneo (in Borneo it is called durung, in Southern Borneo by the Dayaks mampalon).’] N.E.D. notes that ‘Mr. W. W. Skeat rejects the suggested connection with Malay tikus ambang-bulan, the name of a Malaccan viverra (Raffles in Trans. Linn. Soc. 13 273)’.
Now rare.
The otter civet, Cynogale bennetti, of South-East Asia.
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1843 J. E. Gray List Specimens Mammalia Brit. Mus. 53 The Mampalon, Cynogale Bennettii Gray.
1891 Sc. Geogr. Mag. Mar. 160 The smaller animals..include..the Mampelon, an amphibious animal only found here [sc. Deli] and in Borneo.
1919 Encycl. Americana XVIII. 181/1 Mampalon, an aquatic animal (Cynogale bennetti) of Borneo, of the civet family. It is otter-like in form.
1997 M. C. Mckenna & S. K. Bell Classif. Mammals 238 Cynogale Gray... Otter civet, mampalon.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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