markhor

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈmɑːkɔː/    美 /ˈmɑɹkɔɹ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A large wild goat, Capra falconeri, especially Capra falconeri megaceros, syn. Capra megaceros, having huge flattened spiral horns, found in the western Himalayas.
    — He was taught the legends of the Mess Plate, from the great grinning Golden Gods that had come out of the Summer Palace in Pekin to the silver-mounted markhor-horn snuff-mull presented by the last C.O. (he who spake to the seven subalterns).

词形变化

markhors plural

词源

Borrowed from Urdu مارخور (mārxor), from Persian مارخور (mârxor, literally “snake-eater”), from مار (mâr, “snake”) + خور (xor) (present stem of خوردن (xordan, “to eat”)).
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