单词 | saanen |
释义 | Saanenn. Used attributively and absol. to designate (a member of) a breed of white goats which was first developed in the Berne region. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > subfamily Caprinae (goat) > [noun] > genus Capra > other types of goateOE ibex1607 whidaw goat1781 shawl-goat1793 jaal-goat1838 Nubian1879 Nubian goat1879 Toggenburg1886 Anglo-Nubian1898 Saanen1908 walia1932 1908 ‘Home Counties’ Case for Goat iii. 26 Something is now heard of the white Saanen. 1909 G. J. G. Jensen Goat-keeping for All ii. 7 Saanen Goats.—Some two or three specimens of this breed were recently imported by Mr. H. E. Hughes, of Broxbourne. 1920 C. J. Davies Goat-keeping for Milk Production i. 14 The white breed of Switzerland takes its name from Gessenay in Berne... In England the variety is usually known as the Saanen. 1948 A. Huxley Ape & Essence (1949) 125 Three-horned and robed impressively in a white Saanen soutane the great man is sitting with a couple of two-horned Familiars at a large table. 1976 Denbighshire Free Press 8 Dec. 17/6 (advt.) Territone goats, Anglo Nubian British Saanen. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1982; most recently modified version published online September 2018). < |
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