| 单词 | terrier beaver |
| 释义 | > as lemmasterrier beaver 2. More fully terrier beaver. A beaver that burrows instead of building lodges. Now chiefly historical.Such behaviour depends on factors of habitat, population density, and predation. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Rodentia or rodent > [noun] > family Castoridae (beaver) beaverc1000 brocka1387 castora1549 badger1591 terrier1734 bank beaver1903 1734 C. Mortimer in Philos. Trans. 1733–4 (Royal Soc.) 38 177 He [sc. Sarrasin] says there are some Beavers called Terriers [Fr. Castors terriers], which burrow in the Earth. 1781 T. Pennant Hist. Quadrupeds II. 384 [Beavers]..are met with dispersed, or in the state of Terriers, in the wooded parts of independent Tartary. 1807 W. Wood Zoography I. 284 These beavers are called terriers; they either burrow in the banks of rivers, or make their abode in caverns dug in a rising ground. 1917 Fur News Oct. 6/3 His presence there is now unknown: or..it is no longer in the beaver dam, with its cluster of social domes, but only a solitary creature, a ‘terrier beaver’, ill-featured, shaggy in coat, and stunted in growth. 1990 B. Sax Frog King v. 99 Beavers which live in burrows—called ‘Terrier Beavers’..may have been rejected by their communities. < as lemmas |
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