quagga

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈkwɒɡə/    美 /kwæɡə/|/kwɑɡə/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A southern-African subspecies of plains zebra, Equus quagga quagga, which went extinct in 1883. The upper parts of the animal were reddish brown, becoming paler behind and beneath, while the face, neck, and fore part of the body were marked by dark stripes.
    — I saw a rhinoceros, buffalo (a large herd), eland, quagga, and sable antelope, the most beautiful of all the bucks, not to mention many smaller varieties of game, and three ostriches which scudded away at our approach like white drift before a gale.
  2. Ellipsis of quagga mussel. abbreviation,alt-of,ellipsis

词形变化

quaggas plural kwagga alternative,obsolete quagha alternative,obsolete quakka alternative,obsolete

词汇关系

衍生词
quagga mussel

词源

From Dutch quagga (whence also Afrikaans kwagga), from a Khoisan term, probably Haiǁom, Khoekhoe ǁkoaah, apparently of imitative origin.
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