| 单词 | white-toothed shrew |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswhite-toothed shrew white-toothed shrew n. any of the numerous Old World shrews constituting the subfamily Crocidurinae (family Soricidae), characterized by having white rather than red-tipped teeth; esp. Crocidura russula of western Europe and North Africa, and C. suaveolens of Eurasia. ΚΠ 1781 T. Pennant Hist. Quadrupeds II. 481 White-toothed [shrew]. 1800 G. Shaw Gen. Zool. I. ii. 537 White-toothed Shrew..: the teeth, as the name seems to import, remarkably white. 1937 Jrnl. Animal Ecol. 6 284 Crocidura russula (Hermann), the white-toothed or musk shrew,..occurs on the Continent..but not in Great Britain. 2007 G. A. Feldhamer et al. Mammalogy (ed. 3) xii. 248/2 Shrews with pigmented teeth are thus distinguished from the white-toothed shrews (Subfamily Crocidurinae), which do not have this characteristic. < as lemmas |
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