| 单词 | snapping tortoise |
| 释义 | > as lemmassnapping tortoise b. snapping-turtle, one or other of the North American freshwater tortoises of the family Chelydridæ, esp. Chelydra serpentina, the alligator terrapin. Also snapping tortoise. (Cf. snapper n.1 7c.) ΘΚΠ the world > animals > reptiles > order Chelonia (turtles and tortoises) > [noun] > suborder Cryptodira > family Chelydridae > member of (snapping-turtle) snapping tortoise1784 snapper1796 alligator turtle1798 alligator tortoise1801 the world > animals > reptiles > order Chelonia (turtles and tortoises) > [noun] > suborder Cryptodira > family Chelydridae > chelydra serpentina (alligator terrapin) torup1613 snapping-turtle1784 alligator terrapin1832 1784 J. F. D. Smyth Tour U.S.A. I. 338 One kind of them bites very fiercely when incensed..; these are called Snapping Turtles. 1808 T. Ashe Trav. Amer. 1806 II. 234 The Indians call this by a name which implies the snapping tortoise. 1811 R. Sutcliff Trav. N. Amer. (1815) vi. 102 Here is also a great abundance of that kind of tortoise called the snapping turtle. 1828 Western Intelligencer (Hamilton, Ohio) 26 Dec. 1/4 A ‘Salt River Roarer’. One of these two fisted backwoodsmen, ‘half horse, half alligator, and a little touched with the snapping turtle’. 1840 Knickerbocker 16 54 The..snapping-tortoises, frogs, squirrels, and such small deer, are their flocks and herds. 1848 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms Snapping-Turtle, a reptile common to all parts of the United States, so named from its propensity to snap at everything within its reach. 1850 C. Lyell 2nd Visit U.S. (ed. 2) II. 205 On the shore of the lake we caught a tortoise, called here the snapping-turtle. 1884 F. W. True in G.B. Goode et al. Fisheries U.S.: Sect. I 153 The more northern species, Chelydra serpentina, known everywhere throughout the United States as the ‘Snapping Turtle’. < as lemmas |
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