| 释义 |
siafu|sɪˈɑːfuː|
[Swahili.]
= safari ant s.v. safari 3 d. Also attrib.
[1920G. D. H. Carpenter Naturalist on Lake Victoria xii. 276 The ant that most obtrusively calls for notice is the well known Dorylus or ‘Safari ant’,..in Kiswahili called ‘Siafu’.] 1959E. Huxley Flame Trees of Thika xv. 154 The rain brought out the siafu. Those fearful black rivers of implacable insects poured between their low mud banks over the garden. 1976[see safari ant s.v. safari 3]. 1977Reader & Croze Pyramids of Life 212/1 The most effective and thorough carnivore hunter in the forest is a colony of siafu (Dorylus), the so-called army ant. |