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单词 petrodrome
释义

petrodromen.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin Petrodromus.
Etymology: < scientific Latin Petrodromus, genus name (W. C. H. Peters 1846, in Ber. Verhandl. K. Preuss. Acad. Wiss. Berlin 257) < ancient Greek πέτρος stone (see petro- comb. form1) + -δρομος running (see -drome comb. form). N.E.D. (1905) gives the pronunciation as (pe·trodroum) /ˈpɛtrəʊdrəʊm/.
Zoology. Obsolete. rare.
The four-toed elephant shrew, Petrodromus tetradactylus, of southern Africa.
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1859 S. G. Goodrich Illustr. Nat. Hist. Animal Kingdom II. Index 671/3 Petrodrome, a genus of Insectivora, 137, 142.]
1859 S. G. Goodrich Illustr. Nat. Hist. Animal Kingdom I. 137 (caption) Head of Petrodrome.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2020).
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