英语词汇“cape anteater”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

a. (a) A hairy mammal of the South American suborder Vermilingua (superorder Xenarthra, families Myrmecophagidae and Cyclopedidae), as the giant anteater, Myrmecophaga tridactyla; (b) (in full scaly anteater) the pangolin (genus Manis) of parts of Asia and Africa; (c) (in full Cape anteater) the aardvark, Orycteropus afer. Also figurative.

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1668 W. Charleton Onomasticon Zoicon 26 Tamandua Guacu Brasiliensis... the great Ant-eater... Tamandua–i, i.e. the lesser Ant-eater.

1758 Monthly Rev. 19 237 The Little Ant-eater: this animal has been mentioned by Linnæus, but has, we believe, never before been delineated.

1792 W. Jones et al. Diss. & Misc. Pieces Asia II. 289 As to the scaly Lizard the scaled Armadillo, and the five-nailed Ant-eater, they are manifestly improper designations of this animal [sc. the pangolin]; which is neither a Lizard nor an Armadillo in the common acceptation.

1838 G. R. Waterhouse Catal. Mammalia Mus. Zool. Soc. (ed. 2) 62 Cape Anteater..Orycteropus Capensis.

1870 C. H. Spurgeon Treasury of David I. Ps. v. 9 Many human ant-eaters that with their long tongues covered with oily words entice and entrap the unwary.

1907 Consolidated Libr. XIII. 83 The Ant-Eaters are found chiefly in South America, where they make their homes along the banks of streams.

1957 San Mateo (Calif.) Times 31 Dec. 12/1 The Bronx Zoo in New York is proud but puzzled. It has an ant-eater, but no ants.

1986 D. Brewster in H. B. Bloom Doris Lessing 44 The conversation is interrupted by a deadly fight between the anteater and a beetle.

2002 Environmental Hist. 8 479 The pangolin—a scaly ant-eater that lives in neat burrows in the ground—does not sit at the top of the food chain.

2004 R. Dawkins Ancestor's Tale 74 Xenarthrans are an order of South American mammals, including sloths, anteaters and armadillos.

a. Chiefly in sense 2, as in Cape wine, Cape region, Cape boor, etc.; esp. in numerous names of animals, plants, etc. found at the Cape of Good Hope, as Cape aloe, Cape ant-eater, Cape ash, Cape badger, Cape ebony, Cape heath, Cape marmot, etc. (See also Dict. S. Afr. Eng. on Historical Princ. (1996) for many other specific names.)

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1797 T. Holcroft tr. F. L. Stolberg Trav. (ed. 2) III. lxxxiv. 351 I have seen it drunk..for red Cape wine.

1822 Burrowes Encycl. V. 623/2 A cape boor bestows no more labour on his farm than is absolutely necessary.

单词	cape anteater
释义	> as lemmas Cape anteater a. (a) A hairy mammal of the South American suborder Vermilingua (superorder Xenarthra, families Myrmecophagidae and Cyclopedidae), as the giant anteater, Myrmecophaga tridactyla; (b) (in full scaly anteater) the pangolin (genus Manis) of parts of Asia and Africa; (c) (in full Cape anteater) the aardvark, Orycteropus afer. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > order Edentata > [noun] > family Myrmecophagidae (ant-eater) anteater1668 pismire-eater1704 1668 W. Charleton Onomasticon Zoicon 26 Tamandua Guacu Brasiliensis... the great Ant-eater... Tamandua–i, i.e. the lesser Ant-eater. 1758 Monthly Rev. 19 237 The Little Ant-eater: this animal has been mentioned by Linnæus, but has, we believe, never before been delineated. 1792 W. Jones et al. Diss. & Misc. Pieces Asia II. 289 As to the scaly Lizard the scaled Armadillo, and the five-nailed Ant-eater, they are manifestly improper designations of this animal [sc. the pangolin]; which is neither a Lizard nor an Armadillo in the common acceptation. 1838 G. R. Waterhouse Catal. Mammalia Mus. Zool. Soc. (ed. 2) 62 Cape Anteater..Orycteropus Capensis. 1870 C. H. Spurgeon Treasury of David I. Ps. v. 9 Many human ant-eaters that with their long tongues covered with oily words entice and entrap the unwary. 1907 Consolidated Libr. XIII. 83 The Ant-Eaters are found chiefly in South America, where they make their homes along the banks of streams. 1957 San Mateo (Calif.) Times 31 Dec. 12/1 The Bronx Zoo in New York is proud but puzzled. It has an ant-eater, but no ants. 1986 D. Brewster in H. B. Bloom Doris Lessing 44 The conversation is interrupted by a deadly fight between the anteater and a beetle. 2002 Environmental Hist. 8 479 The pangolin—a scaly ant-eater that lives in neat burrows in the ground—does not sit at the top of the food chain. 2004 R. Dawkins Ancestor's Tale 74 Xenarthrans are an order of South American mammals, including sloths, anteaters and armadillos. extracted from anteatern. Cape ant-eater a. Chiefly in sense 2, as in Cape wine, Cape region, Cape boor, etc.; esp. in numerous names of animals, plants, etc. found at the Cape of Good Hope, as Cape aloe, Cape ant-eater, Cape ash, Cape badger, Cape ebony, Cape heath, Cape marmot, etc. (See also Dict. S. Afr. Eng. on Historical Princ. (1996) for many other specific names.) ΚΠ 1797 T. Holcroft tr. F. L. Stolberg Trav. (ed. 2) III. lxxxiv. 351 I have seen it drunk..for red Cape wine. 1822 Burrowes Encycl. V. 623/2 A cape boor bestows no more labour on his farm than is absolutely necessary. extracted from capen.³ < as lemmas
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