incognitum

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An American mammoth or mastodon, especially when presumed extant. archaic
    — When, as president, he dispatched Meriwether Lewis and William Clark to the Northwest, Jefferson hoped that they would come upon live incognita roaming its forests.

词形变化

incognita plural

词源

Borrowed from Latin incognitum (“unknown”). Coined by William Hunter.
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