Bombay Hook

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释义与例句

name
  1. 1.

    A point in Kent County, Delaware, United States

  2. 2.

    A natural region of modern-day Kent County, Delaware, United States.

  3. 3.

    The Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge, a national park encompassing the natural region.

词源

Borrowed from Middle Dutch Boompjes Hoeck (modern Dutch Boompjes Hoek, literally “Little-tree Hook”). Spelling influenced by, and thus remodeled after, Bombay (“historical name of Mumbai”) + hook (“a curve”), and thus also inadvertently a partial calque from Middle Dutch.

来源：wiktionary