hamster

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈhæm(p)stə/|/ˈham(p)stə/    美 /ˈhæm(p)stə/|/ˈhæm(p)stɚ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Any of various Old World rodent species belonging to the subfamily Cricetinae.
    — The hamster stuffed his puffy cheeks with food.
  2. Any of various Old World rodent species belonging to the subfamily Cricetinae.; In particular, a rodent of the species Mesocricetus auratus (the golden hamster) or of a species of the genera Cricetiscus and Phodopus (the dwarf hamsters), often kept as a pet or used in scientific research.
  3. Any of various other rodents of similar appearance, such as the maned hamster or crested hamster, Lophiomys imhausi, mouse-like hamsters of genus Calomyscus, and the white-tailed rat (Mystromys albicaudatus).
动词 v.
  1. To secrete or store privately, as a hamster does with food in its cheek pouches. ambitransitive
    — Probably the city government knew that without that hamstering half the city would starve and they somehow got the police to lay off. It was in the little stinky one-horse towns that you had all the trouble.

词形变化

hamsters plural hampster alternative,obsolete hamsters present,singular,third-person hamstering participle,present hamstered participle,past hamstered past hampster alternative,obsolete

词汇关系

衍生词
antihamster Chinese hamster Chinese hamster ovary cell Djungarian hamster Dzungarian hamster golden hamster hammy hamster ball hamsterer hamstering hamsterization hamsterless hamsterlike hamster style hamster wheel hamstery idea hamster mouse-like hamster rationalisation hamster rationalization hamster Russian winter white dwarf hamster Siberian dwarf hamster Siberian hamster winter white Russian hamster
相关词
gerbil guinea pig mouse rat

词源

词源 1
Borrowed from German Hamster (see for etymology). Displaced earlier term German rat.
词源 2
Borrowed from German Hamster (see for etymology). Displaced earlier term German rat.
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