| 单词 |
camoudie |
| 释义 |
camoudie|kəˈmuːdɪ| Also -di, camoodie, -oedi, -udi. [Native name.] A boa constrictor of tropical America.
1825Waterton Wand. S. Amer. i. 11 The Camoudi snake..from thirty to forty feet long. 1851W. H. Brett Ind. Missions in Guiana 35 The reptile, a large camudi, sprang upon him. 1866R. Duff Brit. Guiana 42 The camoedi was killed with a cutlass. 1887Timehri Dec. 202 A very fine skin of a large Land-camoodie. 1898H. Kirke 25 Yrs. Brit. Guiana 90 A camoudie shot over him and wrapped itself round his body. 1904W. H. Hudson Green Mansions ii. 31 If dangerous creatures had existed there—tigers, or camoodis, or solitary murderous savages. |

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