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单词 vinegaroon
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vinegaroonn.

/ˌvɪnɪɡəˈruːn/
Forms: Also vinagron, vinegarone, vineg(e)rone, vinegarroon.
Etymology: < American Spanish vinagrón, < Spanish vinagre vinegar n. + (depreciatory) augmentative suffix -ón.
U.S.
A large whip scorpion, Mastigoproctus giganteus, which is native to southern North America and Mexico, emits a secretion smelling like vinegar when alarmed, and is often wrongly believed to be venomous. Also transferred.
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1853 L. Sitgreaves Rep. Exped. Zuñi & Colorado Rivers 34 Frequently did I find in the road that disagreeable-looking object known to the Mexicans as the vinagron.
1889 Cent. Dict. 6758/3 Vinegerone..so called on account of the strong vinegar-like odor of an acid secretion noticeable when the creature is alarmed.
1914 Blackwood's Mag. July 123/1 His late breaking-in, the lengthy vacation,..keep the ‘vinegarone’ in his [sc. a bronco's] composition.
1920 Glasgow Herald 8 July 4/2 His animal friends, the chief of whom seem to be vinegrones, some species of bug.
1948 Pacific Discov. Mar. 8/2 The vinegaroons, those queer, eight-legged devils of the desert night, raced at top speed in and out of the shadows to gather insect prey.
1978 Sci. Amer. Mar. 36/3 Here are..the acetic-acid-secreting vinegarroons.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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