Chevrotinとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

chevrotin (plural chevrotins)

1. Alternative form of chevrotain.
   • 1791, Oliver Goldsmith, “Of Animals of the Sheep and Goat Kind”, in An History of the Earth, and Animated Nature. […], new edition, volume III, London: […] F[rancis] Wingrave, successor to Mr. [John] Nourse, […], →OCLC, page 76:

     To this vve may add the Chevrotin, or little Guinea Deer, vvhich is the leaſt of all cloven-footed quadrupeds, and perhaps the moſt beautiful; its legs, at the ſmalleſt part, are not much thicker than the ſhank of a tobacco-pipe; it is about ſeven inches high, and about tvvelve from the point of the noſe to the inſertion of the tail.

Further reading

• “chevrotain | chevrotin, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, December 2019.
• “chevrotain, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.