pinniped
英 ['pɪnɪped]
美['pɪnəpɛd]
- adj. 鳍足类的
- n. 鳍足亚目
英英释义
- 1. aquatic carnivorous mammal having a streamlined body specialized for swimming with limbs modified as flippers
英文词源
- pinniped (n.)
- 1842, from Modern Latin Pinnipedia, suborder of aquatic carnivorous mammals (seals and walruses), literally "having feet as fins," from Latin pinna in secondary sense "fin" (see pin (n.)) + pes, genitive pedis "foot," from PIE root *ped- (1) "a foot" (see foot (n.)).