词族 · terrapin
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中文词源
terrapin 水龟
来自北美印第安土著语 torope,小乌龟。后用于指北美温带江河湖泊的水龟。
英语词源
- terrapin (n.)
- North American turtle, 1670s, earlier torope (1610s), from an Algonquian source (such as Abenaki turepe, Munsee (Delaware) tolpew "turtle"). Subsequently extended to allied species in South America, East Indies, China, North Africa.