quagga
英 ['kw?g?]
美['kw?ɡ?]
- n. 已絕種的南非小斑馬
英文詞源
- quagga (n.)
- zebra-like South African animal, 1785, from Afrikaans (1710), from the name for the beast in a native language, perhaps Hottentot quacha, probably of imitative origin. In modern Xhosa, the form is iqwara, with a clicking -q-. What was likely the last one died in an Amsterdam zoo in 1883.
雙語例句
- 1. The quagga was a strikingly beautiful variant of the zebra.
- 斑驢是一種極美麗的斑馬變種。
來自辭典例句