| 释义 |
▪ I. cooter|ˈkuːtə(r)|
[Cf. coot v.1]
A popular name in the Southern United States of two tortoises, the Common or Carolina Box-turtle (Cistudo carolina), and the ‘Florida Cooter’ (Chrysemys concinna), family Testudinidæ.
1827Massachusetts Spy 22 Aug. (Th.), A few jolly topers, who wallowed in the sand, ‘as drunk as a cooter’. 1835W. G. Simms Partisan 308 You're turned now..on the flat of your back like a yellow-belly cooter. 1884G. B. Goode Fisheries of U.S. 155 Pseudemys concinna, the ‘Florida Cooter’, is found in all the Southern States. Ibid. 158 The Carolina Box Turtle..In the southern States it is known as the ‘Pine-barren Terrapin’, and is also called ‘Cooter’ by the negroes.
▪ II. cooter
dial. f. coulter. |