terrapin
英 ['terəpɪn]
美['tɛrəpɪn]
- n. 水龟（产于北美淡水中，可食用）
词态变化
复数: terrapins;
中文词源
terrapin 水龟
来自北美印第安土著语 torope,小乌龟。后用于指北美温带江河湖泊的水龟。
英英释意
- 1. any of various edible North American web-footed turtles living in fresh or brackish water
英文词源
- terrapin (n.)
- North American turtle, 1670s, earlier torope (1610s), from an Algonquian source (such as Abenaki turepe, Munsee (Delaware) tolpew "turtle"). Subsequently extended to allied species in South America, East Indies, China, North Africa.