| 释义 |
olm|əʊlm|
[G.]
= Proteus 3 b.
1905A. Sedgwick Student's Text-bk. Zool. II. x. 307 Proteus Laur., the olm, 3 fingers, 2 toes, eyes hidden, Carniola subterranean waters. 1926J. S. Huxley Ess. Pop. Sci. viii. 93 Three or four other species of animals, such as Proteus, the blind ‘Olm’ of Carniola, and Necturus, which..are not known in a land-form at all. 1955W. Ley Salamanders i. 3 The olm's rather restricted habitat..is a mountainous area in southern Europe, at the northern end of the Balkan peninsula. Ibid. 4 The olm is blind, having no use for eyes in the cold dark caves where it normally lives. 1965B. E. Freeman tr. Vandel's Biospeleol. iii. 22 It was Proteus which firstly, because of its size, attracted the attention of man, and [was] also the first to receive a vernacular name, the olm. |