quagga

• n. 已绝种的南非小斑马

英文词源

quagga (n.)

zebra-like South African animal, 1785, from Afrikaans (1710), from the name for the beast in a native language, perhaps Hottentot quacha, probably of imitative origin. In modern Xhosa, the form is iqwara, with a clicking -q-. What was likely the last one died in an Amsterdam zoo in 1883.

双语例句

1. The quagga was a strikingly beautiful variant of the zebra.

斑驴是一种极美丽的斑马变种。

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