| 单词 | pharaoh's rat |
| 释义 | > as lemmasPharaoh's rat Pharaoh's rat n. [after French †rat de pharaon (1564 in Middle French in this sense; earlier in Old French (1298 in Marco Polo) as rat de Fareon, probably denoting a Mongolian species of marmot or a similar rodent)] the Egyptian mongoose, Herpestes ichneumon. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Carnivora > [noun] > family Herpestidae > genus Herpestes (mongoose) ichneumon1572 rat of Inde1601 Pharaoh's rat1605 Indian mouse1607 Pharaoh's mouse1607 Indian rat1613 mongoose1673 mungo1752 vansire1774 yellow mongoose1917 1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. vi. 200 So Pharaohs Rat yer he begin the fray 'Gainst the blinde Aspick. 1742 C. Owen Nat. Hist. Serpents i. iii. 10 In form it resembles an over-grown Rat, and is called the Indian-Rat, and Pharaoh's Rat. 1884 Standard Nat. Hist. V. 442 Pharaoh's Rat..feeds to a great extent upon the eggs of the crocodile. 1935 M. Moore Sel. Poems 9 Pharaoh's rat, the rustbacked mongoose... Its restlessness was its excellence. 1954 M. K. Wilson tr. K. Lorenz Man meets Dog i. 15 The Ichneumon, also called Pharaoh's rat, was a native of Egypt. < as lemmas |
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