| 单词 | jackass deer |
| 释义 | > as lemmasjackass deer jackass deer n. †(a) the waterbuck, Kobus ellipsiprymnus (obsolete); (b) North American the mule deer, Ococoilus hemionus; (c) North American the wapiti, Cervus canadensis. ΚΠ 1850 Proc. Zool. Soc. London 18 131 This animal is called Sing-Sing by all the negroes... The English on the Gambia call it a Jackass Deer from its appearance. 1884 H. H. Bancroft et al. Hist. California I. viii. 185 Traces are seen of animals which the friar imagines to be buffaloes, but which the soldiers pronounce burros, or ‘jackass deer’, such as they had seen in New Mexico. 1894 R. Lydekker Royal Nat. Hist. II. 351 It [sc. the call of the stag] has..been compared to the bray of a donkey; and it is suggested that it is partly from this that the wapiti has received the nickname of ‘jackass deer’, bestowed upon it by the traders in the Rocky Mountains. 1917 A. Samler Brown & G. Gordon-Brown Guide S. & E. Afr. iii. 744 The Sing Sing Antelope proper (c. unctuosus) is confined to the West Coast, being common in the Senegal and Gambia districts where it is known as the Jackass Deer. 1946 Frontiers Apr. 104/2 They have been compared to the bray of a donkey, and it is supposed that from this the wapiti was given the name of ‘jackass deer’. 1995 A. B. Guthrie Fair Land, Fair Land vi. 34 Once in a while now a mule deer—I call 'em jackass deer on account of the ears—it kind of strolls by. < as lemmas |
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