sandgroper
发音
US
词形变化
sandgropers
复数
sandgropers
释义与例句
n.
-
1.
An inhabitant of Western Australia.
澳大利亚 幽默 -
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