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单词 mariche
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marichen.

Origin: A borrowing from Italian. Etymon: Italian Mariche.
Etymology: < Italian Mariche, plural (in G. Botero Relationi (1592) ii. 233, the source for quot. 1613), glossed ‘animali con faccia di donzella, e la coda di scorpione’ (animals with the face of a woman and the tail of a scorpion), probably ultimately < classical Latin manticora manticore n. Compare Italian marichina small ape.In the loose English translation of Botero, The Travellers Breviat (1601) 130, the Italian word is translated ‘serpents’.
Obsolete. rare.
A manticore, or a similar mythical creature.
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1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 459 In these parts [sc. south-eastern Asia] are huge woods, harbours of Lions, Tigers, Ownces, and Mariches, which haue Maidens faces and Scorpions tailes.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2000; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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