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mammal

英 ['mæm(ə)l]美 ['mæml]

n. [脊椎] 哺乳動物

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mammal         哺乳動物   “沒毛的哺乳動物”

中文詞源

mammal 哺乳動物

來自拉丁語mammalis,乳房的，來自mamma,乳房。瑞典生物學家林奈借用拉丁詞來指哺乳動物。

英語詞源

mammal

mammal: [19] EtyMologically, mammal denotes an ‘animal that suckles its young’. The word is a derivative of mammalia [18], the term for that whole class of animals, coined by the Swedish naturalist Linnaeus from Latin mammālis ‘of the breast’. This in turn was based on mamma ‘mother, breast’, which has been traced back to a prehistoric Indo-European *mammā.

There are obvious links with ‘mother’-terms in other languages, such as Greek mámmē, French maman, Italian mamma, Russian mama, Welsh mam, and English mamma and mummy, but whether a sustained chain of descent and borrowing is involved, or simply parallel formation based on the syllable ma, imitative of the sound of a suckling baby, is not clear. Mammary [17] is an English derivative of Latin mamma, in the sense ‘breast’.

=> mamma, mammary, mummy

mammal (n.)

1826, anglicized form of Modern Latin Mammalia (1773), coined 1758 by Linnaeus for the class of mammals, from neuter plural of Late Latin mammalis "of the breast," from Latin mamma "breast," perhaps cognate with mamma.

權威例句

1. Its hairy body suggests a mammal.

它毛茸茸的身體表明它是哺乳動物。

2. The function of a mammal's fur is to insulate the body.

哺乳動物皮毛的功能在於使身體保溫.

3. A whale is a kind of mammal.

鯨是一種哺乳動物.

4. The whale is the largest mammal in creation.

鯨魚是所有哺乳動物中最大的.

5. There is a close analogy between the gills of a fish and the lungs of a mammal.

魚的鰓與哺乳動物的肺很相似.

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