| 单词 | water cow |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswater cow water cow n. (a) a legendary or mythical animal associated with water; cf. water bull n.; (b) any of various large amphibious, aquatic, or water-loving mammals, as the water buffalo, hippopotamus, manatee, (female) waterbuck, etc. [With sense (b) compare earlier sea-cow n.] ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > mythical creature or object > [noun] > miscellaneous types of > like an animal sea-wolf1297 water bulla1731 water cow1794 ngarara1901 troll-bull1902 jackalope1950 1794 J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. XII. 275 The neighbouring people allege that there have been water cows seen in or about this lake. 1803 J. Leyden Scenes of Infancy 170 The lake, or loch of Alemoor..is reckoned the residence of the water-cow, an imaginary amphibious monster, not unlike the Siberian mammuth. 1891 Cent. Dict. Water-cow, the common domestic Indian buffalo, Bos bubalus or Bubalus buffelus. 1895 Antiquary July 217 A water-cow is said to inhabit St. Mary's Loch near Yarrow. 1963 Life 19 Apr. 90/4 We had seen a handsome dark-brown female waterbuck (water cow). 1980 C. P. MacCormack in C. MacCormack & M. Strathern Nature, Culture & Gender 100 The hippopotamus or ‘water cow’ mask has rudimentary horns. 2002 M. Fleming Not of this World 148 Many people believed water cows to be fairy animals herded by their owners on the seabed. 2005 S. E. Jorgensen et al. Lake & Reservoir Managem. iv. 219 The proliferation of the water cow, manatee (Halicore dugong), in Florida. < as lemmas |
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