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单词 phascolome
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phascolomen.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French phascolome.
Etymology: < French phascolome (E. Geoffroy St-Hilaire 1803, in Ann. du Muséum d'Hist. Nat. 2 365), irregularly < scientific Latin Phascolomys , former genus name (E. Geoffroy St-Hilaire 1803 as phascolomis , in the same work) < ancient Greek ϕάσκωλος leather bag, purse (see Phascologale n.) + μῦς mouse, rat (see myo- comb. form). N.E.D. (1906) gives the pronunciation as (fæ·skoloum) /ˈfæskəʊləʊm/.
Zoology. Obsolete.
A wombat.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Implacenta > subclass Marsupialia (marsupials) > [noun] > family Wombatidae (wombat)
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1827 E. Griffith et al. Cuvier's Animal Kingdom II. 77 The Phascolomes (Phascolomys, Geoff.). These are true rodentia by the teeth and the intestines.
1842 R. Owen in Ann. Nat. Hist. 11 7 The largest fossil..indicating rather an extinct gigantic Phascolome.
1871 R. Soule Dict. Eng. Synonymes 452/2 Wombat, n. Phascolome (Phascalomys ursinus).
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2020).
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