grampus

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A killer whale (Orcinus orca).
    — Some time after this we saw some very large fish, which I afterwards found were called grampusses.
  2. Risso's dolphin (Grampus griseus), with a blunt nose.
  3. A hellbender salamander, Cryptobranchus alleganiensis.
  4. A giant whip scorpion (Mastigoproctus giganteus)

词形变化

grampuses plural

词汇关系

衍生词
blow the grampus
相关词
crass Pisces

词源

From Middle English *grampas, grappays, grapas, graspeys, from Anglo-Norman grampais, Old French graspois, craspois (“whale, (salted) whale meat; blubber; seal”), from Medieval Latin craspicis (literally “fat fish”), from Latin crassus (“fat”) + piscis (“fish”).
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