单词 | hog stag |
释义 | † hog stagn. Obsolete. rare. Perhaps: the hog deer, Axis porcinus.Smellie was not convinced that Buffon's hog-stag (quot. 1780) was the same as Pennant's hog deer (quot. 1771 at hog deer n. 1b), but subsequent writers equated the two. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > types of deer > [noun] > unspecified and miscellaneous types of hog deer1771 hog stag1780 1780 W. Smellie tr. Comte de Buffon Nat. Hist. Gen. & Particular IV. 111 I have seen..a small kind of stag, which was said to have been brought from the Cape of Good Hope... It was called the Hog-stag, because its legs were thicker, and it had not the agility of body as the common kind. 1816 Encycl. Perthensis (ed. 2) V. 190/1 Cervus Porcinus maculatus, the spoted [sic] Porcine Deer, or Hog Stag of Buffon. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < n.1780 |
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