sandgroper

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词形变化

sandgropers 复数 sandgropers

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    An inhabitant of Western Australia.

    澳大利亚 幽默
  2. 2.

    Any species of the family Cylindrachetidae of subterranean insects, found in Australia, New Guinea and Argentina.

词源

From sand + groper. The sense “Western Australian” may originate either as a reference to the relatively large proportion of desert in the state or to gold mining during the rushes of the 19th Century.

来源:wiktionary