Maleoとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

The common term for megapodes (including the maleo) in various Celebic languages of the Sulawesi region; introduced as a common name by Dutch zoologist Coenraad Jacob Temminck in 1826, and as a species epithet by German naturalist Salomon Müller in 1846.

名詞

maleo (plural maleos)

1. Macrocephalon maleo, a species of turkey-like bird in the megapode family, endemic to Sulawesi.
   • 1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume I, London: Macmillan and Co., page 413:

     It is in this loose, hot, black sand that those singular birds, the "Maleos" deposit their eggs.

参照

• maleo on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Macrocephalon maleo on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Macrocephalon maleo on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

アナグラム

• Meola, amelo-, amole, lame-o, lameo, olema