| 单词 | aardvark |
| 释义 | aardvark (once / 120606 pages) n An aardvark is an African animal with a long nose. Aardvarks are well known for eating ants and termites. You might see an aardvark if you visit a zoo. Some people call aardvarks "antbears," because of their diet of small insects. Aardvarks are the size of a badger or small pig, and they tend to be nocturnal, burrowing for food at night with their long tongues and sleeping during the day. The word aardvark comes from Afrikaans Dutch, literally meaning "earth-pig," a combination of aard, "earth," and vark, "pig." WORD FAMILYaardvark: aardvarks USAGE EXAMPLESTrump can no more surrender the spotlight than an aardvark can swear off ants. Seattle Times(Oct 08, 2016) Twitter erupted into a menagerie full of dolphins, polecats, aardvarks and Irish wolfhounds. New York Times(Sep 22, 2016) And she vowed she wasn’t giving it up, not even to Maniac, till she read everything from Aardvark to Aztec. Jerry Spinelli, Maniac Magee(1990) n nocturnal burrowing mammal of the grasslands of Africa that feeds on termites; sole extant representative of the order Tubulidentata Syn|Hyper Orycteropus afer, ant bear, anteater eutherian, eutherian mammal, placental, placental mammal mammals having a placenta; all mammals except monotremes and marsupials |
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