hippotaur

名词 n.
英 /ˈhɪpə.tɔː/    美 /ˈhɪpə.tɔɹ/|/ˈhɪpə.tɑɹ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A creature that is half bull and half horse.
    — Cnemon is surprised even by the shadow of a crocodile, while Nausicles smiles at a foolish bird-catcher sent to catch the phoenicopter; or the giraffe terrifies the Ethiopians at a point in the plot when surprise is least expected - before Theagenes improvises a hippotaur to deal with it. This is again the world of Herodotus-at-the-Zoo.
  2. A taur with the lower body of a hippopotamus. slang

词形变化

hippotaurs plural hippotaurs plural

词源

词源 1
From Latin hippotaurus, from Ancient Greek ἱππόταυρος (hippótauros), from ἵππος (híppos, “horse”) (English hippo-) + ταῦρος (taûros, “bull”).
词源 2
From hippo + -taur.
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