单词 | hippologist |
释义 | hippologistn. An expert in or student of hippology; a person who studies horses or their breeding, training, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > zoology > study of specific types of animal > [noun] > mammals > horses > one who hippologist1830 1830 Sporting Mag. July 215/2 To broach an opinion of this import is, I know, in opposition to the sentiments entertained by many hippologists. 1892 Notes & Queries 8 Oct. 283/1 ‘Gaunt’ is a term which I find specially applied by an old hippologist to the physical condition of horses. 1917 Jrnl. Royal Anthropolog. Inst. 47 379 It has been mainly by a study of the teeth and limbs that hippologists have been able to sort horses into a number of more or less well-marked groups. 1937 D. Katz Animals & Men i. 5 It was decided to appoint a committee of eminent zoologists, hippologists and psychologists to examine the horse. 2010 Representations 111 97 Military hippologists and veterinarians spoke out as experts on questions regarding the correct representation of horses in painting. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1830 |
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