英语词汇“cerastes”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组、英语词典-本地帮

单词

cerastes

释义

‖ cerastes Zool.|sɪˈræstɪz|
[L. cerastēs, a. Gr. κεράστης horned, a horned serpent, f. κέρας horn.]
A genus of venomous serpents found in Africa and some parts of Asia, having a projecting scale or ‘horn’ above each eye; the horned viper. Early and poetic uses are drawn vaguely from Pliny, and other ancient writers, who probably meant a species of the same genus.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xviii. xxxi. 794 Cerastes is an hornid serpent.1591Sylvester Du Bartas i. vi. (1641) 51/1 Th' horned Cerastes, th' Alexandrian Skink.1625K. Long tr. Barclay's Argenis i. iii. 10 Like the new-horn'd Cerastes, violent.1667Milton P.L. x. 525 Cerastes hornd, Hydrus, and Ellops drear.a1711Ken Hymnoth. Wks. 1721 III. 20 As horn'd Cerastes wont to..watch for Mischief in a beaten Road.1814Cary Dante's Inf. ix. 42 Adders and cerastes crept Instead of hair, and their fierce temples bound.1863Wood Nat. Hist. iii. 107 The true Cerastes or Horned Viper is a native of Northern Africa.

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