单词 | native rabbit |
释义 | > as lemmasnative rabbit a. In the names of mammals, birds, and fishes, as native bustard, native mouse, native rabbit, etc. ΚΠ 1788 in Hist. Rec. Austral. (1914) 1st Ser. I. 32 Five ewes and a lamb had been killed in the middle of the day, and very near the camp, I apprehend by some of the native dogs. 1804 M. Hookey B. Knopwood & his Times (1929) 24 Mar. 20 Killed a Native Hen, which first took the sea. 1826 J. Atkinson Acct. Agric. & Grazing New S. Wales 23 The rat, or native rabbit, has all the habits of the domestic rat of Europe. 1847 F. W. L. Leichhardt Jrnl. Overland Exped. Austral. 260 Several native bustards (Otis Novæ-Hollandiæ) were shot. 1929 W. Martin N.Z. Nature Bk. I. xix. 175 The Kokopu or ‘Native Trout’ (Galaxias fasciatus) is known from all parts of New Zealand south of the Bay of Islands. 1968 Times 23 Jan. (Austral. Suppl.) p. xiii/3 He..caught instead a pair of dibblers..believed to be extinct and of importance as a link between the smaller phascogales and the larger native cats. 1970 W. D. L. Ride Guide Native Mammals Austral. ix. 152 These relatively unspecialized-looking Australian native-mice are little known. < as lemmas |
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