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单词 skink
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Definition of skink in English:

skink

noun skɪŋkskiNGk
  • A smooth-bodied lizard with short or absent limbs, typically burrowing in sandy ground, and occurring throughout tropical and temperate regions.

    Family Scincidae: numerous genera and species

    Example sentencesExamples
    • They also eat small birds, snakes, lizards, and skinks.
    • Now, I am seeing many more lizards, skinks and related reptiles in the yard.
    • For his doctoral work, Breck studied the reptiles and amphibians of Minnesota, with a special focus on the black-banded skink.
    • The black-tailed monitor has a unique tactic to rustle up skinks, the small lizards on which it feeds.
    • He makes few assumptions about higher-level lizard taxonomy and includes geckos, skinks and agamids among his in-group taxa.
    • Mr Marshall said several other species of lizards and skinks were also starting to become active as the weather warmed.
    • In his suitcases were more than 200 live skinks, geckos, and frogs.
    • The cryptic posture might make these skinks invisible to tree-dwelling predators as well.
    • I have skinks running around my house, whispering in my ear while I sleep.
    • There's no way a gecko or skink, for example, will grow as big as a Brachiosaurus.
    • Those and other nymphs that were unable to feed should have died, thereby decreasing larval infestation levels on Seychelles skinks in September.
    • Rodents, salamanders, lizards, geckos, and skinks shed their tails.
    • While living here I have spotted many, including small shiny skinned skinks, geckos (jing-jocks and tokays), and large monitor lizards.
    • There are a great many flowering bushes such as the distinctively Australian banksias, and red-tailed skinks are often seen sunning themselves on the rocks.
    • There are many other snakes of all different sizes, as well as chameleons, geckos, lizards, skinks, iguanas, spiders and huge tortoises.

Origin

Late 16th century: from French scinc or Latin scincus, from Greek skinkos.

Rhymes

bethink, blink, brink, cinque, clink, dink, drink, fink, Frink, gink, ink, interlink, jink, kink, link, mink, pink, plink, prink, rink, shrink, sink, slink, stink, sync, think, wink, zinc
 
 

Definition of skink in US English:

skink

nounskiNGk
  • A smooth-bodied lizard with short or absent limbs, typically burrowing in sandy ground, and occurring throughout tropical and temperate regions.

    Family Scincidae: numerous genera and species

    Example sentencesExamples
    • They also eat small birds, snakes, lizards, and skinks.
    • While living here I have spotted many, including small shiny skinned skinks, geckos (jing-jocks and tokays), and large monitor lizards.
    • For his doctoral work, Breck studied the reptiles and amphibians of Minnesota, with a special focus on the black-banded skink.
    • There are many other snakes of all different sizes, as well as chameleons, geckos, lizards, skinks, iguanas, spiders and huge tortoises.
    • There's no way a gecko or skink, for example, will grow as big as a Brachiosaurus.
    • Rodents, salamanders, lizards, geckos, and skinks shed their tails.
    • I have skinks running around my house, whispering in my ear while I sleep.
    • There are a great many flowering bushes such as the distinctively Australian banksias, and red-tailed skinks are often seen sunning themselves on the rocks.
    • In his suitcases were more than 200 live skinks, geckos, and frogs.
    • Those and other nymphs that were unable to feed should have died, thereby decreasing larval infestation levels on Seychelles skinks in September.
    • Now, I am seeing many more lizards, skinks and related reptiles in the yard.
    • He makes few assumptions about higher-level lizard taxonomy and includes geckos, skinks and agamids among his in-group taxa.
    • The black-tailed monitor has a unique tactic to rustle up skinks, the small lizards on which it feeds.
    • The cryptic posture might make these skinks invisible to tree-dwelling predators as well.
    • Mr Marshall said several other species of lizards and skinks were also starting to become active as the weather warmed.

Origin

Late 16th century: from French scinc or Latin scincus, from Greek skinkos.

 
 
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