单词 | wool-bearer |
释义 | wool-bearern. An animal that bears wool, esp. a sheep. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > [noun] > parts of > coat > mammal bearing wool wool-bearer1483 the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > genus Ovus > [noun] > Ovus Aries (domestic sheep) sheepc825 sowthc1175 balle1440 wool-bearer1483 flocklinga1652 ram-sheep1672 fleece1783 jumbuck1824 ovine1890 mae1899 woolly1910 1483 Cath. Angl. 423/1 A Wolle berere, laniger. 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 631 The Epithets of this beast are, horne-bearer,..wool-bearer [etc.]. ?1611 G. Chapman tr. Homer Iliads xxiv. 134 A huge wooll-bearer, slaughtered there. 1651 C. Barksdale Nympha Libethris ii. xlv. 45 The trembling Wool-bearer. 1837 W. Youatt Sheep iii. 95 Many an animal that had not been dreamed of as a wool-bearer. 1891 C. Roberts Adrift in Amer. 245 To maunder on behind the slow and harmless wool-bearers. Derivatives ˈwool-ˌbearing adj. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > [adjective] > of parts of > having coat of specific kind > bearing wool laniferous1656 wool-bearing1830 lanigerous1839 1830 D. Booth Analyt. Dict. Eng. Lang. 186 The Sheep, or Woolbearing animal (Ovis aries). This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1928; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1483 |
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