indri
n. [动]马达加斯加大狐猴
发音
US
/ˈɪndɹi/
UK
/ˈɪndɹi/
词形变化
indris
复数
indris
释义与例句
n.
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1.
One of the largest living lemurs (Indri indri), native to Madagascar.
大狐猴
词汇关系
词源
Possibly from Malagasy endrina (“the lemur Indri indri”). A common explanation asserts that the word comes from the Malagasy indry (pronounced /ˈiɳɖʐʲ/) meaning “lo!” or “behold!”, or from indry izy (“There he is!”), which guides shouted to the French naturalist Pierre Sonnerat (1748–1814) upon seeing the animal, and which Sonnerat mistook for its name, but it has been suggested that Sonnerat studied indris too closely for this story to be plausible.
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