单词 | kuri |
释义 | kurin. New Zealand. A Maori dog, long extinct; also, a mongrel. Cf. goorie n., goory. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > [noun] > genus Canis > other types red wolf1823 hill-fox1838 kuri1838 zorro1838 Falkland Island wolf1857 bush dog1883 guara1884 the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > dog > [noun] > mongrel mongrelc1460 limer1538 potlicker1830 kuri1838 mutt1900 mong1903 pooch1908 goorie1937 1838 J. S. Polack New Zealand I. ix. 308 The karáráhé, or dog (Canis Australis), which, when young, is known as kuri, has been an inhabitant some two or three centuries. 1843 E. Dieffenbach Trav. N.Z. II. iv. 46 The New Zealand dog is different from the Australian dingo;..the native name is kuri. 1900 J. Scott Tales Colonial Turf 180 It was a sort of poodle..no one would think of asking who owned the kuri. 1930 J. Cowan in J. Reid Kiwi Laughs (1961) 97 I wish you'd give it to them hot and strong about the blasted ‘kuris’ worrying my sheep. 1949 P. H. Buck Coming of Maori (1950) i. iv. 64 The dog (kuri) figures a good deal in tradition. 1959 N. B. Tindale & H. A. Lindsay Rangatira 195 Kuri dog. The Maori dog was small... It was kept as a pet, it gave some aid in hunting, and it provided..fresh meat... It appears to be a domesticated strain of the feral dog of India..now extinct in New Zealand. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < |
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