单词 | sea-otter |
释义 | sea-ottern. 1. a. A marine otter of the shores of the North Pacific, Enhydra lutris. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Mustelidae (weasel, marten, otter, or badger) > [noun] > genus Enhydra (sea-otter) sea-otter1664 sea-beaver1761 sea-apea1891 1664 R. Hubert Catal. Rarities (1665) 14 A Sea-Otter. 1710 R. Sibbald Hist. Fife & Kinross ii. iii. 49 Lutra Marina, the Sea-Otter,..differeth from the Land-Otter, for it is bigger, and the Pile of its Furr is rougher. 1790 Coll. Voy. round World V. x. 1758 Sea-otters are amphibious. 1817 W. Scott Rob Roy III. vii. 209 A large leathern pouch,..made of the skin of the sea otter. 1836 W. Irving Astoria I. 174 Numbers of canoes soon came off, bringing sea-otter skins to sell. 1879 Cassell's Techn. Educator (new ed.) I. 74/1 The fur of the sea-otter is thick, soft, and woolly. 1883 Cassell's Nat. Hist. II. 201 Like the Seal, the Sea Otter is gregarious. b. sea-otter's cabbage n. the large seaweed Nereocystis Lütkeana of the North Pacific, the fronds of which are a favourite resort of sea-otters. ΚΠ 1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. 2. The thick dark fur of Enhydra lutris. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > skin or hide > skin with hair attached or fur > [noun] > of otter ottera1300 otter skina1399 sea-otter1813 Alaska seal1873 1813 A. Henry Jrnl. 19 Nov. (1992) II. 612 His son had a robe of two sea otters for which he demanded 48 beavers. 1915 Chambers's Jrnl. Jan. 48/2 Of sea-otter, too, perhaps one of the loveliest furs of all, the supply is failing. 1956 J. G. Links Bk. Fur iii. 139 A sea otter collar to his coat was to the great industrialist of the last century what a private stratocruiser is to his successor. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < n.1664 |
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