“muckna”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

muckna

释义

muckna India and Sri Lanka.|ˈmʌknə|
[Hind., f. Skr. matkuṇa (among various senses) an elephant without tusks.]
A male elephant without tusks, or one having only rudimentary tusks.
c1780R. Lindsay in A. W. C. Lindsay Lives of Lindsays (1849) III. 194 The muckna, or elephant born without teeth, is thought the best.1848tr. W. Hoffmeister's Trav. Ceylon & India vi. 207 Of the herd of elephants,..the largest, whose height does not much exceed nine feet, is a ‘Muckua’ [sic] i.e., an elephant with short, straight tusks, which never grow.1878G. P. Sanderson Thirteen Yrs. among Wild Beasts India vi. 66 Mucknas breed in the herds, and the peculiarity is not hereditary nor transmitted.1886G. Yule in Yule & Burnell Hobson-Jobson 454/1, I can distinctly call to mind 6 mucknas that I had..out of 30 or 40 elephants that passed through my hands.1890S. W. Baker Wild Beasts I. vi. 226 A tiger sprang from the grass, and seized a large muckna (tuskless male) by the trunk.

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