“sea、elephant”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

sea-elephant

释义

sea-elephant
The elephant seal, Macrorhinus elephantinus or proboscideus. Formerly applied to the morse or walrus.
1601Holland Pliny ix. v. I. 236 There were sea-Elephants and Rams, with teeth standing out.1634T. Johnson tr. Parey's Chirurg. xxv. xxi. 1005 The Sea Elephant is bigger than the land Elephant, as Hector Boëtius writes in his description of Scotland.1755tr. Pontoppidan's Nat. Hist. Norway ii. 157 Their two large teeth or tusks..are as good as ivory for any kind of turn'd work; and therefore this creature [the walrus] is called by some the Sea-Elephant.1798[see elephant 6].1875J. H. Kidder Nat. Hist. Kerguelen Isl. 39 In former years the Kerguelen group of islands was noted as a favorite breeding-place for the sea-elephant (Macrorhinus leoninus, L.).
attrib.1828P. Cunningham N.S. Wales (ed. 3) II. 103 A considerable portion of sea-elephant oil is also procured at Macquarie Island.1883Fisheries Exhib. Catal. 201 Sea Elephant oil, crude and bleached.

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