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abundance (n.)mid-14c., from Old French abondance and directly from Latin abundantia \\\"fullness, p...

738
abundant (adj.)late 14c., from Old French abundant and directly from Latin abundantem (nominative ab...

570
abuseabuse: see useabuse (v.)early 15c., \\\"to misuse, misapply,\\\" from Middle French abuser, fro...

961
abusive (adj.)1530s (implied in abusively), originally \\\"improper,\\\" from Middle French abusif,...

391
abutabut: see buttabut (v.)mid-13c., \\\"to end at, to border on,\\\" from Old French aboter \\\"joi...

610
abysmal (adj.)1650s, formed in English from abysm + -al (1). Weakened sense of \\\"extremely bad\\\"...

314
abyssabyss: [16] English borrowed abyss from late Latin abyssus, which in turn derived from Greek áb...

916
acaciaacacia: [16] Acacia comes via Latin from Greek akakía, a word for the shittah. This is a tree...

606
academic (adj.)1580s, \\\"relating to an academy,\\\" also \\\"collegiate, scholarly,\\\" from Latin...

799
academic (adj.)1580s, \\\"relating to an academy,\\\" also \\\"collegiate, scholarly,\\\" from Latin...

744
anteater (n.)also ant-eater, 1764, in reference to the South American species; 1868 of the Australia...

798
armadillo (n.)1570s, from Spanish armadillo, diminutive of armado \\\"armored,\\\" from Latin armatu...

760
badgerbadger: [16] The Old English term for a ‘badger’ was brock, a word of Celtic origin, and badge...

985
batbat: Bat as in ‘cricket bat’ [OE] and bat the animal [16] come from entirely different sources. B...

926
bearbear: [OE] The two English words bear ‘carry’ and bear the animal come from completely different...

478
beaverbeaver: [OE] Like bear, beaver appears to mean etymologically ‘brown animal’. Old English beof...

485
bisonbison: [14] Bison appears to be of Germanic origin, from a stem *wisand- or *wisund-. This beca...

815
buffalobuffalo: [16] English probably acquired buffalo from Portuguese bufalo, originally naming the...

545
calfcalf: English has two distinct words calf, both of Germanic origin. Calf ‘young cow’ goes back t...

762
camelcamel: [OE] Naturally enough, camel is of Semitic origin: Hebrew has gāmāl, for example, and Ar...

635
chimpanzee (n.)1738, from a Bantu language of Angola (compare Tshiluba kivili-chimpenze \\\"ape\\\")...

889
deerdeer: [OE] In Old English, dēor meant ‘animal’ in general, as opposed to ‘human being’ (as its m...

230
dolphindolphin: [13] The ultimate source of dolphin is Greek delphís ‘dolphin’, which some have link...

295
elephantelephant: [13] Elephants were named from their tusks. Greek eléphās (probably a borrowing fr...

170
ferretferret: [14] A ferret is, from an etymological point of view, a ‘thieving animal’. The word co...

179
vt. 欺骗；使变酸\nn. 狐狸；狡猾的人\nvi. 假装；耍狡猾手段\nn. (Fox)人名；(英、法、德、意、西、瑞典)福克斯fox 狐狸，欺骗，迷糊来自PIE*puk, 尾巴。因狐狸毛茸茸的大...

153
n. 瞪羚；小羚羊\nvi. 似瞪羚般跳跃\nn. (Gazelle)人名；(西)加塞列gazelle 羚羊来自阿拉伯语。gazellec. 1600, from French gazelle, Ol...

165
giraffegiraffe: [17] The 16th-century name for the ‘giraffe’ was camelopard, a compound of camel and...

172
armadillo (n.)1570s, from Spanish armadillo, diminutive of armado \"armored,\" from Latin armatus, p...
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