单词 | moloch lizard |
释义 | > as lemmasMoloch lizard 3. Usually moloch. The thorny devil, Moloch horridus (family Agamidae), a small orange and brown lizard of grotesque appearance that is covered with thorny spines and is native to the deserts of inland Australia (more fully Moloch lizard); also called mountain devil, spiny lizard. Also (in form Moloch): the monotypic genus that comprises this lizard. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Lacertilia (lizards) > [noun] > family Agamidae (dragon lizards) > moloch horridus (thorny devil) Moloch1841 mountain devil1870 thorny devil1899 1841 J. E. Gray in G. Grey Jrnls. Two Exped. Discov. Austral. II. 440 Moloch, Gray.—Body depressed, covered with small, granular plates... I have named this genus..after ‘Moloch, horrid king’... Moloch horridus. 1855 J. Bonwick Geogr. Austral. & N.Z. (ed. 3) 200 The Moloch lizard has horns on its head and spines on its back. 1893 Daily News 22 Dec. 5/4 Australia produces many curiosities..but few are greater oddities in..appearance than the Moloch lizard. a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) I. ii. 29 Among lizards the horned toad of Arizona and the moloch of Australia are like artists' grotesques. 1945 ‘Master-Sarg’ Yank discovers Austral. 74 The Moloch Lizard..you can find..in the desert with some sand and stones. 1969 A. Bellairs Life of Reptiles II. vi. 310 Perhaps the most prickly of all lizards are the little short-tailed iguanids known as horned lizards..and the very similar-looking agamids called thorny devils (Moloch) from Australia. 1989 Encycl. Brit. VIII. 236/3 The moloch is an inhabitant of sandy deserts of Australia, and it feeds on black ants. < as lemmas |
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