diplodocus
英 [dɪ'plɒdəkəs; ,dɪplə(ʊ)'dəʊkəs]
美[dɪ'plɑdəkəs]
- n. 梁龙（恐龙的一种）
英英释义
- 1. huge quadrupedal herbivore with long neck and tail; of late Jurassic in western North America
中文词源
diplodocus 梁龙
diplo-, 两倍的，词源同diploid. -doc, 柱子，房屋主梁，来自PIE*dek, 承载，得体，词源同decent. 因这种恐龙其尾巴下的双柱叉骨而得名。
双语例句
- 1. The Diplodocus around in groups. They walked very slowly.
- 双棘龙成群活动, 它们走路非常的慢.
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英文词源
- diplodocus (n.)
- 1884, coined in Modern Latin in 1878 by U.S. paleontologist Othniel Charles Marsh (1831-1899) from Greek diploos "double" (see diploid) + dokos "a beam." So called for the peculiar structure of the tail bones.