单词 | crab-eating |
释义 | > as lemmascrab-eating crab-eating adj. that feeds on crabs (sometimes rendering Latin cancrivorus). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > by eating habits > [adjective] > carnivorous > feeding on crabs crab-eating1812 1812 G. Shaw Gen. Zool. VIII. i. 71 Crab-eating kingfisher. 1847 W. B. Carpenter Zool.: Systematic Acct. I. §309 The Crab-eating Opossum is common in Guiana and Brazil, it..prefers marshy situations, where it feeds on crabs. 1883 List Vertebrated Animals Gardens Zool. Soc. (ed. 8) 82 Procyon cancrivorus, crab-eating raccoon. 1883 List Vertebrated Animals Gardens Zool. Soc. (ed. 8) 193 Didelphys cancrivora, crab-eating opossum. 1895 tr. R. Schmidtlein Brehm's Life Animals 594/2 The Crab-eating Opossum has a wide geographical range, extending perhaps throughout all of tropical America. 1900 Daily News 28 Nov. 7/2 A crab-eating racoon from South America. 1905 Westm. Gaz. 27 Dec. 10/2 A crab-eating opossum. 1908 Westm. Gaz. 6 June 10/2 Stones are always met with in the stomachs of two species of Antarctic seals. The Crab-eating seal is one of these..swallowing them to act as grindstones, whereby the hard shells of the crabs may be properly broken up. 1932 S. Zuckerman Social Life Monkeys & Apes vi. 89 The length of the cycle in the common or crab-eating macaque is approximately the same as in other macaques. 1954 G. Durrell Three Singles to Adventure vii. 156 It was a broad, flat head with neat rounded ears and a dog-like muzzle. The creature's colouring was ash grey, but across the eyes was a wide black band... ‘A crab-eating raccoon.’ 1966 R. Morris & D. Morris Men & Apes i. 20 Crab-eating macaques in Bali are apparently treated with as much deference as the sacred monkeys of India. < as lemmas |
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