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单词 sea-otter
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sea-ottern.

1.
a. A marine otter of the shores of the North Pacific, Enhydra lutris.
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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.
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1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot.
2. The thick dark fur of Enhydra lutris.
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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).
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