| 单词 | terrapin farm |
| 释义 | > as lemmasterrapin farm terrapin farm n. an establishment where terrapins are bred and reared for their meat or for sale as pets. Terrapin farms were once common in the United States but are now mainly found in Asia and other places where terrapin meat is eaten. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or breeding other animals > [noun] > enclosure for sponges or turtles turtle-crawl1833 turtle-kraal1885 terrapin farm1901 kraal1939 1874 Galveston (Texas) Daily News 18 Sept. (heading) Terrapin farms. 1901 Cambr. Nat. Hist. VIII. ix. 360 Enterprising men have established terrapin-farms or ‘crawls’ for the keeping and breeding of terrapins. 2000 New Straits Times (Malaysia) (Nexis) 3 May 14 They had lived rather comfortably with the modest earnings from their terrapin farm until last year when the sales dropped. < as lemmas |
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