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pangolin

/pang-guh-lin, pang-goh-/US // ˈpæŋ gə lɪn, pæŋˈgoʊ- //UK // (pæŋˈɡəʊlɪn) //

穿山甲,鲮鱼,鲮鲤,苍蝇

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : any mammal of the order Pholidota, of Africa and tropical Asia, having a covering of broad, overlapping, horny scales and feeding on ants and termites.

Examples

  • The team compared changes in the building blocks, or amino acids, of the virus’ spike protein with four coronaviruses from bats or pangolins that don’t infect people.

  • He felt accused, but he wondered what he was being accused of, since his paper had correctly accounted for its pangolin data sources.

  • The pangolin papers, published in quick succession in early 2020, were a promising start.

  • A wild-animal trader who caught a strange new virus from a frozen pangolin.

  • Five serval cats also call the refuge home, plus a constant stream of pangolins, the world’s most trafficked animal.

  • In their belts they carried several knives, while the musket and the little round cap of pangolin skin completed their equipment.

  • The climbing species have a small bare patch on the under side of the tail near the tip (see Pangolin).

  • This ant-eater is known as the “pangolin,” or “manis,” but there are several species of “pangolin” not African.

  • Lastly, the pangolin (Manis) is represented by two species in the eastern Himalaya.