| 单词 | indian ass |
| 释义 | > as lemmasIndian ass Indian ass n. [after classical Latin asinus Indicus (Pliny), ancient Greek Ινδικὸς ὄνος ( Aristotle Historia Animalium 499 b 20)] a mythical animal resembling an antelope, with a single horn and uncloven hooves. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > mythical creature or object > [noun] > unicorn one-hornedlOE unicorn?c1225 monocerosc1400 Indian ass1594 licorn1842 1594 T. Blundeville Exercises v. x. f. 260 The Unicorne is founde in Æthiopia, like as the Indian Asse is found in India, which hath likewise one only horne in his forehead. 1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia v. vii. 288 Whether the Rhinoceros be the Unicorn, I suspend my belief..: But what Petrus Angelius relates concerning the Onager, or Indian Ass, can have no congruity with this. 1733 in tr. Anc. Accts. India & China Remarks 62 The Indian Ass of..Pliny. a1846 J. Bostock in J. Bostock & H. T. Riley tr. Pliny Nat. Hist. (1855) II. viii. xxxii. 281 (note) There are five animals mentioned by the ancients, as having single horns, the Indian ass, the single-horned horse, [etc.]. 1907 Folk-lore 18 213 It is commonly asserted that the apparently one-horned aspect of some Antelopes, when seen in side view, probably originated the idea of the existence of animals such as the one-horned Indian Ass and the one-horned ‘Oryx’. 1993 Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 114 538 Aristotle's India is the home of the dart-shooting martichoras..and the single-horned Indian ass.., creatures which belong to the world of fable rather than the real world. < as lemmas |
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