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单词 kakkerlak
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kakkerlakn.

/ˈkakərlak/
Forms: Also 1700s kackerlake, 1800s kakerlak, kakkerlac.
Etymology: < Dutch kakkerlak, German kakerlak cockroach, albino, believed to be of South American origin. French has kakerla(t , cancrelat in sense 1, kakerlaque , chacrelas in sense 2 (Littré). The avoidance of light is supposed to be the connecting link between the senses.
1. = cockroach n.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order Dictyoptera > member of genus Blatta (cockroach)
blatta1601
cockroach1616
mill moth1658
twitch-ballock1757
drummer1764
mill beetle1771
kakkerlak1813
roach1822
twitch-clock1843
twitch-cloga1876
cocky1931
1813 W. Bingley Anim. Biog. (ed. 4) III. 154 The Kakkerlac or American Cock-Roach, is very common in that country.
1883 Cassell's Nat. Hist. VI. 132 This family [the Blattidæ] includes the numerous species of Cockroaches, or Kakerlaks.
2. An albino (the Dutch name in Java).
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > [noun] > abnormal pigmentation > albinism > person
albino1708
kakkerlak1777
albiness1800
leucaethiop1860
moon child1923
1777 W. Robertson Hist. Amer. (1796) II. iv. 69 The Kackerlakes are a degenerate breed, not a separate class of men.
1888 in New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon .

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ˈkakkerlakism n. [French kakerlaquisme] a synonym for albinism as existing in Java. ( New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon).
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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