tuatara

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A reptile, Sphenodon punctatus, native to New Zealand, that resembles a lizard and is the only surviving specimen of the order Rhynchocephalia.
    — In New Zealand the dinosaurs had perished 65 million years before, as they had elsewhere on the globe; but the sphenodons or tuataras who had been their contemporaries from Jurassic times persisted, in New Zealand but nowhere else, for reasons that remain obscure.

词形变化

tuataras plural tuatara plural

词源

Etymology tree
Māori tuatarabor.
English tuatara
Borrowed from Māori tuatara.
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