| 单词 | tabby |
| 释义 | tabby (once / 6106 pages) adjn A tabby is a house cat with stripes on its fur, often in browns and grays. There are different breeds of tabby cats. Occasionally one will dangle off a branch under a caption that says, “Hang in there.” Tabby can refer to domesticated cats, but it's also an adjective describing the stripy pattern itself. Tabby cats, with their swirling tabby patches, might also have a marking in the shape of an M on their foreheads. Maine coon cats are one example of a tabby breed. In the 1600's, tabby was a kind of striped silk fabric, and the word comes from the Arabic 'Attabiy, a Baghdad neighborhood where the cloth was traditionally produced. WORD FAMILYtabby: tabbies, tabbily USAGE EXAMPLESThey shared a love of animals, they had a tabby cat called Harold Wilson, and enjoyed camping holidays together in Europe on Corbyn's motorbike. BBC(Sep 24, 2016) Their place was also home to Cleo, a gray tiger-striped tabby who loves to bound about for hours in the snow. Washington Post(Nov 10, 2016) The Breakthrough Initiative, backed by Prof Stephen Hawking and Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, will train a US radio telescope on a target called Tabby's Star. BBC(Oct 26, 2016) 1adj having a grey or brown streak or a pattern or a patchy coloring; used especially of the patterned fur of cats Syn brinded, brindle, brindled patterned having patterns (especially colorful patterns) 2n a cat with a grey or tawny coat mottled with black Syn|Hyper tabby cat Felis catus, Felis domesticus, domestic cat, house cat any domesticated member of the genus Felis 3n female cat Syn|Hyper queen Felis catus, Felis domesticus, domestic cat, house cat any domesticated member of the genus Felis |
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