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单词 tarand
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tarandtarandren.

Forms: Also tarandule, and in Latin forms tarandus, tarandrus.
Etymology: < French tarande, obsolete tarandre, < medieval Latin tarandus, Latin tarandrus (Pliny), name of a northern beast, supposed to be the reindeer.
Obsolete.
a. A name given to some northern quadruped, at length identified with the reindeer.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > types of deer > [noun] > genus Rangifer (reindeer)
reindeerc1440
rein1555
tarand1572
buff1607
caribou1609
maccarib1672
bucka1674
woodland caribou1854
1572 J. Bossewell Wks. Armorie ii. f. 57 The fielde is of the Topaze, a Tarandre tripping, Rubye, unguled Diamonde. Tarandrus is a beaste in bodye like a great Oxe, hauing an head like to an harte, and hornes full of branches.
1572 J. Bossewell Wks. Armorie iii. f. 22v The Tarandule is a beaste commonly called a Buffe, which is like an Oxe, but that he hath a bearde like a Goate.
1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 559 The Tarandus is a Beast somewhat resembling an Oxe, in quantitie, a Hart in shape.
1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Tarandus, in zoology, a name given by Agricola and some other authors, to the rein-deer.
b. Said to have, like the chameleon, the power to ‘change himselfe into the thing he toucheth or leaneth vnto’ (Florio); so Rabelais iv. ii. Also figurative.It is not certain that tarand (applied scurrilously to Christ) in quot. c1440, is the same word.
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the world > time > change > changeableness > [noun] > changeable person or thing
weathercocka1300
wind?a1513
Proteus1528
chameleon1586
moon's man1598
vane1598
mooncalf1607
remover1609
tarand1641
inconstant1647
mutables1652
changeablea1711
kaleidoscope1819
phantasmagoria1822
palimpsest1845
variable1846
the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Lacertilia (lizards) > [noun] > family Chamaeleonidae > member of (chameleon)
chameleon1340
camlec1400
tarand1641
c1440 York Myst. xxxiii. 381 (iii Miles) All þin vntrew techyngis þus taste I, þou tarand.
1641 R. Carpenter Experience, Hist., & Divinitie ii. xi. 218 Like the Tarrand, which walking in a Garden, represents the colour of every flower on his skin.
1694 P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais Pantagruel's Voy.: 4th Bk. Wks. iv. ii. i.
1702 Eng. Theophrastus 363 As the tarand changes its colour with every plant that it approaches so the wise man adapts himself to the several humours and inclinations of those he converses with.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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