| 单词 | badger-like |
| 释义 | > as lemmasˈbadger-like ˈbadger-like adj. and adv. resembling or in the manner of a badger. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Mustelidae (weasel, marten, otter, or badger) > [adverb] > like a badger badger-like1647 1647 J. Cleveland Poems in Char. London-diurnall (Wing C4662) 36 Come keen Iambicks, with your Badgers feet, And Badger-like, bite till your teeth do meet. 1736 R. Hodshon Honest Man's Compan. 59 For they are, Badger-like, once break the Soil, and they'll dig and earth themselves over-head. 1891 W. H. Flower & R. Lydekker Introd. Study Mammals 567 Divided..into the Otter-like (Lutrine), Badger-like (Meline), and Weasel-like (Musteline) forms. 1998 N. J. Holland in L. Langsdorf et al. Reinterpreting Polit. xviii. 277 There is..a badgerlike retreat to the safety of ever-smaller and more confining burrows to avoid having to face the threatening other. 2013 A. T. Smith & Y. Xie Mammals of China 321 The Chinese forms fall naturally into two groups: (1) the weasels, Wolverine, and martens; and (2) the badger-like mustelids. < as lemmas |
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