单词 | golden mole |
释义 | > as lemmasgolden mole golden mole n. [originally after Italian talpa dorata (1780 in the passage translated in quot. 1787)] any of the blind burrowing mammals of southern Africa that constitute the family Chrysochloridae, resembling (but not related to) the true moles, and having fur with a silvery or iridescent sheen; frequently with distinguishing word.The first species to be named by Linnaeus, Chrysochloris asiatica, was mistakenly thought to have come from Siberia. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > [noun] > order Insectivora > family Chrysochloridae (golden mole) golden mole1787 chrysochlore1847 sand-mole1850 Cape mole1889 1775–6 W. Kenrick et al. tr. Comte de Buffon Nat. Hist. Animals, Veg., & Minerals IV. 91 We shall take notice of a kind of mole found in Siberia, called the Golden coloured Mole.] 1787 C. Cullen tr. F. S. Clavigero Hist. Mexico II. Diss. iv. 295 The golden mole of Siberia. 1855 W. S. Dallas in Syst. Nat. Hist. II. 490 The peculiar metallic lustre of their coats, which has given rise to the name of Golden Mole (Chrysochloris aurea), applied to the best known species. a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) I. xxi. 667 In the Cape golden mole it [sc. the hair surface] is covered with very fine lines so that it exhibits iridescence. 2013 G. N. Bronner in J. Kingdon et al. Mammals Afr. I. 242/1 The genus Chrysochloris contains three small species from the geographical extremes of the range of golden-moles in sub-Saharan Africa. < as lemmas |
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