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

818
buffalobuffalo: [16] English probably acquired buffalo from Portuguese bufalo, originally naming the...

548
calfcalf: English has two distinct words calf, both of Germanic origin. Calf ‘young cow’ goes back t...

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

637
chimpanzee (n.)1738, from a Bantu language of Angola (compare Tshiluba kivili-chimpenze \\\"ape\\\")...

891
deerdeer: [OE] In Old English, dēor meant ‘animal’ in general, as opposed to ‘human being’ (as its m...

232
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...

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

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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...

154
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...

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

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