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单词 père davids deer
释义

Père David's deern.

Brit. /pɛː ˌdavɪdz ˈdɪə/, U.S. /ˌpɛ(ə)r ˌdævɪdz ˈdɪ(ə)r/
Forms:

α. 1800s– Père David's deer, 1900s– Pere David's deer.

β. 1900s– Père David deer.

Origin: From proper names, combined with an English element. Etymons: proper name Père David , deer n..
Etymology: < the genitive of the name of Père Armand David (1826–1900; compare père n.), French missionary and naturalist, who obtained two skins of captive Chinese animals in 1865 + deer n. In β. forms < the name of Père David + deer n.
A large, long-tailed deer, Elaphurus davidianus, native to China, long extinct in the wild but surviving in captivity and reintroduced into China in the 1980s.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > types of deer > [noun] > genus Elaphurus (Père David's deer)
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Père David's deer1898
1898 R. Lydekker Deer of All Lands 237 The general appearance of Père David's deer, when roaming in the park at Woburn Abbey, being quite unlike that of any other member of the group.
1927 G. Jennison Nat. Hist.: Animals 290 It is known to Europeans as the Père David Deer from the Naturalist Missionary who discovered it in 1865.
1955 Times 11 May 12/7 Chief among them [sc. the Woburn deer] is the herd of 300 Père David's deer—a species now extinct in its native China.
1994 New Scientist 20 Aug. 33/3 Species such as..the Pere David's deer (Elaphurus davidianus)..have been rescued from the point of extinction and are now highly inbred.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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