| 单词 | cynocephalus |
| 释义 | ‖ cynocephalus|sɪnəʊ-, saɪnəʊˈsɛfələs|
Pl. -i. Also 5–7 anglicized cynocephale.
[L., a. Gr. κυνοκέϕαλος dog-headed, the dog-faced baboon, f. κυνο- dog- + κεϕαλή head. In mod.F. cynocéphale.]
1. One of a fabled race of men with dogs' heads.
c1400Mandeville (Roxb.) xxi. 97 Men and wymmen of þat ile hase heuedes lyke hundes; and þai er called Cynocephales. 1650Bulwer Anthropomet. 7 It may be the Cynocephali were but men with such heads, discovered by some Grecian. 1816G. S. Faber Orig. Pagan Idol. II. 479 The cynocephali or dog-headed priests of..Anubis.
2. A kind of ape having a head like that of a dog; the Dog-faced Baboon. In Zool. taken as the name of the genus.
1601Holland Pliny I. 157 They..liue of the milke of certain beasts that we cal Cynocephales, hauing heads and snouts like dogs. Ibid. I. 232 Apes that be headed and long snouted like dogs, and thereof called Cynocephali. 1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts (1673) 6 The shape of their snout like a cynocephale. 1774Goldsm. Nat. Hist. (1776) IV. 207 The last of the ape kind is the Cynocephalus. 1876Birch Rede Lect. Egypt 27 Their fauna, comprising the cynocephalus and the camelopard. |
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