| 单词 | east african springhaas | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasEast African springhaas   The South African springhare,  Pedetes capensis (more fully  South African springhaas); (also) the similar East African springhare,  P. surdaster (more fully  East African springhaas); = springhare n.Quot. 1785   cites the South African Dutch word. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Rodentia or rodent > 			[noun]		 > family Pedetidae (jumping-hare) mountain hare1785 springhare1822 springhaas1831 jumping-hare1839 leaping hare1849 1785    G. Forster tr.  A. Sparrman Voy. Cape Good Hope II. 195  				By the colonists it [sc. the jerbua Capensis] is called berg-haas, or spring-haas (the mountain or bounding hare).]			 1831    Proc. Comm. Sci. & Corr. Zool. Soc. London 1830–1 1  vii. 86 		(table)	  				Pedetes, or Spring-Haas. 1837    J. E. Alexander Narr. Voy. Observ. W. Afr. I. 347  				One of the party shot a spring-haas, or jumping hare, formed like the kangaroo, with very short fore-legs and long hind ones. 1890    A. Martin Home Life Ostrich Farm xi. 225  				Most uncanny of all the hares is the spring-haas. This creature..is never seen in the daytime, and can only be shot on moonlight nights. 1904    Knowledge Aug. 171/1  				The Spring-haas is very rarely met with in captivity. 1942    S. Cloete Hill of Doves 		(U.K. ed.)	 145  				His pulse..is fast and jumping like a springhaas. 1979    Jrnl. Zool. 189 222  				The Family Pedetidae was thought to consist of two species, the South African Springhaas..and the East African Springhaas. 2010    Mail & Guardian 		(Johannesburg)	 		(Nexis)	 1 Apr.  				Silvery springhaas pirouetted across the plains. < as lemmas | 
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