单词 | mantegar |
释义 | † mantegarn. Obsolete. A kind of baboon (not identified).The descriptions suggest the mandrill, although 18th-cent. naturalists appear to have considered the two to be distinct. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > order Primates > suborder Anthropoidea (higher primates) > [noun] > group Catarrhinae (Old World monkey) > family Cercopithecidae > genus Papio (baboon) > unspecified and miscellaneous type of mantegar1704 man-tiger1755 chacma1835 1704 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 24 1571 The Mantegar is an Animal not described as I know of by any Author. 1705 N. Rowe Biter i. i. 12 Clev. Did your Ladyship ever see the Mantegur? Sta. Oh dear! no—he was a very obscene Monster—he was obscene, rude, very rude and beastly—but the Womantegur..was very well bred. 1741 Mem. Martinus Scriblerus xiv. 46 in A. Pope Wks. II The glaring Cat-a-mountain..and the Man-mimicking Manteger. 1797 Encycl. Brit. X. 544/2 Mantegar, or Man-tiger,..is the tufted ape. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2000; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1704 |
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