Gentoo

词形变化

Gentoos 复数 Gentoos

别名

Gentu Gentue

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A non-Muslim inhabitant of India, a Hindu; specifically, in Southern India, an ethnic-Telugu.

    历史

    1841, Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Spiritual Laws” in Essays (First Series), Boston: James Munroe, p. 133, The poor mind does not seem to itself to be any thing, unless it have an outside badge, — some Gentoo diet, or Quaker coat, or Calvinistic prayer- meeting, or philanthropic society, or a great donation, or a high office, or, any how, some wild contrasting action to testify that it is somewhat.

  2. 2.

    The gentoo penguin (Pygoscelis papua), a species of penguin.

name
  1. 1.

    The Telugu language.

    历史

相关短语

gentoo penguin gentoo penguins

词源

Of Anglo-Indian origin (17th century), apparently a borrowing from Portuguese gentio (“heathen”) (compare gentile (“pagan”)).

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