英语词汇“box tortoise”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

box tortoise n. any of various turtles or tortoises that having a shell that can be closed tightly to protect the limbs and head (typically by means of a hinged plastron); spec. (a) a box turtle (genus Terrapene or Cuora); †(b) a spider tortoise (genus Pyxis) (obsolete rare). [After French tortue à boîte ( B. G. E. de Lacépède Hist. nat. des quadrupèdes ovipares et des serpens (1789) II. 489), itself probably after German Dosenschildkröte (M. E. Bloch, 1787). With sense (b) compare scientific Latin Pyxis , genus name (see pyxis n. 5).]

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box tortoise1790

box turtle1804

pine-barren terrapin1836

1790 Lit. Mag. & Brit. Rev. Apr. 286/1 This volume..is terminated by additions to the Natural History of Oviparous Quadrupedes, such as the Grecian tortoise, the box tortoise, the grey lizard [etc.].

1843 Penny Cycl. XXV. 72 Genus Pyxis. This genus is the only Land Box Tortoise. By means of this sort of moveable door or lid, the Pyxis..can shut itself up in a sort of box.

1901 H. A. Nesbitt tr. C. Keller Madagascar, Mauritius & other East-Afr. Islands v. 54 The box-tortoise (Pyxis arachnoides) is remarkable from its having the divisions of the carapace movable.

1925 in C. Wells Six Years in Malay Jungle App. 229 Turtles and tortoises are found in great variety... The rivers and ponds harbour several soft-billed forms, while many box tortoises inhabit the jungle.

2012 Washington Post (Nexis) 7 June (Metro section) t13 The field agent who rescued the turtle said the reptile was actually a common box tortoise.

单词	box tortoise
释义	> as lemmas box tortoise box tortoise n. any of various turtles or tortoises that having a shell that can be closed tightly to protect the limbs and head (typically by means of a hinged plastron); spec. (a) a box turtle (genus Terrapene or Cuora); †(b) a spider tortoise (genus Pyxis) (obsolete rare). [After French tortue à boîte ( B. G. E. de Lacépède Hist. nat. des quadrupèdes ovipares et des serpens (1789) II. 489), itself probably after German Dosenschildkröte (M. E. Bloch, 1787). With sense (b) compare scientific Latin Pyxis , genus name (see pyxis n. 5).] ΘΚΠ the world > animals > reptiles > order Chelonia (turtles and tortoises) > [noun] > suborder Cryptodira > family Emydidae (freshwater turtles) > terrapene carolina (box-turtle) box tortoise1790 box turtle1804 pine-barren terrapin1836 1790 Lit. Mag. & Brit. Rev. Apr. 286/1 This volume..is terminated by additions to the Natural History of Oviparous Quadrupedes, such as the Grecian tortoise, the box tortoise, the grey lizard [etc.]. 1843 Penny Cycl. XXV. 72 Genus Pyxis. This genus is the only Land Box Tortoise. By means of this sort of moveable door or lid, the Pyxis..can shut itself up in a sort of box. 1901 H. A. Nesbitt tr. C. Keller Madagascar, Mauritius & other East-Afr. Islands v. 54 The box-tortoise (Pyxis arachnoides) is remarkable from its having the divisions of the carapace movable. 1925 in C. Wells Six Years in Malay Jungle App. 229 Turtles and tortoises are found in great variety... The rivers and ponds harbour several soft-billed forms, while many box tortoises inhabit the jungle. 2012 Washington Post (Nexis) 7 June (Metro section) t13 The field agent who rescued the turtle said the reptile was actually a common box tortoise. extracted from boxn.² < as lemmas
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