† ptilocerquen.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French ptilocerque.

Etymology: < French ptilocerque (1854 or earlier) < scientific Latin Ptilocercus , genus name (J. E. Gray 1848, in Proc. Zool. Soc. 16 24) < ptilo- ptilo- comb. form + ancient Greek κέρκος tail (see cercus n.). The animal is so named on account of its appearance (compare pen-tailed tree shrew n. at pen-tailed adj.).

Zoology. Obsolete. rare. Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.

= pen-tailed tree shrew n. at pen-tailed adj.

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1873 Amer. Cycl. III. 104/2 A curious representative of the insectivora is the feather-tailed ptilocercus Lowii.]

1895 I. K. Funk et al. Standard Dict. Eng. Lang. II. Ptilocerque, the pen-tailed shrew.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online June 2021).

单词	ptilocerque
释义	† ptilocerquen. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French ptilocerque. Etymology: < French ptilocerque (1854 or earlier) < scientific Latin Ptilocercus , genus name (J. E. Gray 1848, in Proc. Zool. Soc. 16 24) < ptilo- ptilo- comb. form + ancient Greek κέρκος tail (see cercus n.). The animal is so named on account of its appearance (compare pen-tailed tree shrew n. at pen-tailed adj.). Zoology. Obsolete. rare. Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries. = pen-tailed tree shrew n. at pen-tailed adj. ΚΠ 1873 Amer. Cycl. III. 104/2 A curious representative of the insectivora is the feather-tailed ptilocercus Lowii.] 1895 I. K. Funk et al. Standard Dict. Eng. Lang. II. Ptilocerque, the pen-tailed shrew. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.1895
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