irbisとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• enPR: ĭr′bĭs
• 韻: -ɪɹbɪs
• ハイフネーション: ir‧bis

名詞

irbis (plural not attested)

1. (uncommon) snow leopard (large feline mammal, Panthera uncia, native to mountain ranges of central Asia)
   • 1893, John Martin Crawford, U.S. Consul General to Russia, transl., The Industries of Russia, volumes 5: Siberia and the Great Siberian Railway, St Petersburg, Chapter VI. The Kirghiz Steppe Region, page 83 :

     The tiger and the irbis (felis irbis) reach the northern limit of their distribution in the reeds of Balkhash, but occasionally stray northward into the neighbourhood of the Alatau.