| 单词 | leather-back |
| 释义 | > as lemmasleather-back leather-back n. a large marine soft-shelled turtle, Dermochelys coriacea ΘΚΠ the world > animals > reptiles > order Chelonia (turtles and tortoises) > [noun] > suborder Cryptodira > family Dermochelidae > member of (leather-back) sea-turtlec1612 trunk-turtle1697 leather-back1855 leathery turtle1875 luth1883 trunk-back1883 leather-turtle1884 1855 J. Ogilvie Suppl. Imperial Dict. Leather-back. 1880 Cassell's Nat. Hist. IV. 260 The Leather-back Turtles, whose carapace is not covered with scales of shell, but with a dense coriaceous skin. 1965 R. McKie Company of Animals xii. 168 On the beaches of Trengganu..the leatherback turtles lay their eggs. 1969 A. Bellairs Life of Reptiles I. ii. 41 The tendency nowadays is to regard the leatherback as a specialised descendant of turtles of more ‘ordinary’ type. < as lemmas |
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