grazer

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. One who or that which grazes, in any sense.
    — It seems likely that parents are free to respond in these different ways because they have no fear of their child growing into a chronic, adult knee-grazer.
  2. An animal that grazes.
    — There were large hippolike grazers (Teleoceras, Brachypotherium, and Peraceras superciliosum)[…]
  3. A television viewer with a short attention span who switches between channels regularly.
    — Grazers have a lower level of involvement and view only when "something is happening."

词形变化

grazers plural

词汇关系

衍生词
Earth-grazer macrograzer mesograzer micrograzer sungrazer

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *gʰreh₁-der.
Proto-Germanic *grasą
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ti
Proto-Germanic *-ōną
Proto-Germanic *grasōną
Proto-West Germanic *grasōn
Old English grasian
Middle English grasen
English graze
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English grazer
From graze + -er.
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