“Captain Cooker”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

Captain Cooker

释义

Captain Cooker N.Z.|ˈkæptɪn ˈkʊkə(r)|
Also Captain Cook.
[f. Captain James Cook (1728–79), navigator and explorer.]
A wild boar, Sus scrofa (supposedly descended from the domesticated pigs introduced into New Zealand by Cook).
1879N.Z. Country Jrnl. III. 55 The immense tusks..attest..the size of the wild boars or ‘Captain Cooks’ as the patriarchs are generally termed.1892W. E. Swanton Notes on N.Z. 116 The old boars among them are called ‘Captain Cooks’, after the esteemed founder of their order.1902W. S. Walker Zealandia's Guerdon iv. 42 [The dog] got..‘bailed up’ a regular ‘Captain Cooker’, long, lean and very muscular.1957D. Glover in J. Reid Kiwi Laughs (1961) 206 He has taken the liberty of bringing along a complete history of the district from the sighting of the first Captain Cooker by a white man.

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