单词 | pullet |
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音标 | ['pulit] |
解释 | n.小母鸡 |
红宝书 | 【英】 n. 小母鸡 (a young hen during its first year of laying eggs) 【考】 filly : horse / pullet : chicken(小母马和马/小母鸡 和鸡) |
字源 | pullet (n.) late 14c., "young fowl" (late 13c. as a surname), from Anglo-French pullet, Old French poulette, poilette, diminutive of poule, poille "hen," from Vulgar Latin *pulla, fem. of Latin pullus "young animal," especially "young fowl" (source also of Spanish pollo "chicken," Italian pollo "fowl;" see foal (n.)). Technically, a young hen from the time she begins to lay until the first molt. |
不择手段背单词 | n. (不满周岁的家养)小母鸡 【记】pull(v 拖拉), et小: 用很小的力气就能拖着走-小母鸡 【类】filly: horse = pullet: chicken小母马和马 = 小母鸡和鸡 |
趣味全助记 | 【记】poultry家禽(鸡,鸭等) + let小;小pull 拖 + let 小,拖着的小东西,母鸡拖着小母鸡走路 【相关】fowl家禽, foal 驹 |
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