| 单词 | fur-bearer |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfur-bearer fur-bearer n. an animal that yields a fur of (commercial) value; so fur-bearing adj. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > [noun] > parts of > (types of) fur > animals having fur-bearer1876 fluffy1889 1876 J. Burroughs Winter Sunshine (1883) iv. 91 The fox..furnishes, perhaps, the only instance..of a fur-bearing animal..that actually increases in the face of the means that are used for its extermination. 1906 E. Ingersoll Life Animals: Mammals 162 The Fur Bearers..the martens, weasels, badgers, ratels, skunks, otters and their kin of the family Mustelidæ. 1936 Discovery Jan. 30/2 To slaughter fur-bearing animals for Broadway shops. 1941 J. S. Huxley Uniqueness of Man viii. 186 Direct destruction may be for commercial gain, as with whales, egrets, or fur-bearers. < as lemmas |
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