wurbagoolとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

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名詞

wurbagool (plural wurbagools)

1. An Indian flying fox (Pteropus medius, syn. Pteropus giganteus), found throughout south Asia.
   • [1867, Andrew Leith Adams, Wanderings of a naturalist in India: The western Himalayas, and Cashmere, Edinburgh: Edmonston & Douglas, page 15:

     My attention was one morning directed to a colony of flying foxes (Pteropus edwardsii) […] The natives call this bat the “wurbagool.”]

   • 1877, Robert Armitage Sterndale, Seonee, Or Camp Life on the Saptura Range, page 194:

     You see, my lord, I get rheumatic pains in my leg sometimes, and the bone of a wurbagool tied round the ankle with a string of a black cow's hair is, they say, the best cure.

同意語

• greater Indian fruit bat

参照

• Indian flying fox on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Pteropus giganteus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Pteropus medius on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons