释义 |
‖ zemni|ˈzɛmnɪ| Also 8 ziemni, 9 zemmi. [Short for Russ. dial. schenók zemnói ‘puppy of earth’ (zemnói adj. f. zemlya earth).] The blind mole-rat, Spalax typhlus. Also zemni-rat.
1785Smellie tr. Buffon's Nat. Hist. (1791) VIII. 232 In Poland and Russia there is another animal called ziemni or zemni, which is of the same genus with the zisel. 1836–9Todd's Cycl. Anat. II. 571/2 Some..are devoid of the auricle, as the mole, the zemni-rat, the mole-rat. |