shield-toad

短语

词形变化

shield-toads 复数 shield-toads

别名

shieldtoad shelt-toad

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A turtle or tortoise.

    罕用

    For quotations using this term, see Citations:shield-toad.

词源

From shield + toad. Compare shelled-toad, shell-toad, shellpad, shell-paddock. Compare also West Frisian skyldpod (“tortoise”, literally “shield-toad”), Dutch schildpad (“tortoise”, literally “shield-toad”), German Schildkröte (“tortoise”, literally “shield-toad”), Swedish sköldpadda (“tortoise”), Icelandic sjaldbaka (“turtle”, literally “shield-back”).

来源：wiktionary