platypus是什么意思（platypus的用法）

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一、platypus是什么意思

1、platypus 鸭嘴兽

2、来自希腊语platypous,宽脚的，来自platys,宽的，词源同plate,pous,脚，词源同foot.后用于鸭嘴兽这种动物，因其脚宽而得名。

二、platypus的用法

1、platypus

2、platypus: [18] The platypus’s name means literally ‘flat-footed’. It was given to it at the end of the 18th century, and is first recorded in George Shaw’s Naturalists’ Miscellany 1799. It was adapted from Greek platúpous, a compound formed from platús ‘flat’ (source of English place, plaice, and plane the tree) and poús ‘foot’ (a relative of English foot).=> foot, place, plane, plate

3、platypus (n.)

4、Australian duck-mole, 1799, from Modern Latin, from Greek platypous, literally "flat-footed," from platys "broad, flat" (see plaice (n.)) + pous "foot," from PIE root *ped- (1) "a foot" (see foot (n.)).Orig. the generic name, but, having already been given to a genus of beetles, it was in 1800 changed for Ornithorhyncus. [OED]

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