| 单词 |
tic-polonga |
| 释义 |
‖ tic-polonga Zool.|tɪkpəʊˈlɒŋgə| [According to Madras Manual of Administration III. 154, ad. Sinhalese tit-polongā, f. tita, in comb. tit-, speck, freckle, spot, mark + polongā viper. The form with tic- is app. due to substituting tik ‘spot, freckle, mark, spot on tiger-deer’, for tit-.] A venomous snake of India and Sri Lanka: the chain viper or necklace-snake, Daboia Russellii.
[1681R. Knox Hist. Ceylon 29 There is another venomous Snake called Polonga, the most venomous of all.] 1825Mrs. Heber in H.'s Narr. Journ. (1828) II. xxvii. 258 The Cobra de Capello is the most common, but its bite is not so certainly fatal as that of the Tic Polonga. 1834H. Caunter Orient. Ann. vii. 80 A large dog, belonging to a Cingalese who accompanied us, was bitten by a snake, the ticpolonga. 1910Times 13 Sept. 7/4 Three of the most deadly snakes known in India—the cobra, the tic-polonga or Russell's viper, and the banded krait. |

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