shield-toad

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A turtle or tortoise. nonstandard,rare
    — But we already know that a shield-toad is a Frenchman, while the sun is Apollo's shield.

词形变化

shield-toads plural shieldtoad alternative shield toad alternative shelt-toad alternative

词源

From shield + toad. Compare shelled-toad, shell-toad, shellpad, shell-paddock. Compare also West Frisian skyldpod (“tortoise”, literally “shield-toad”), Dutch schildpad (“tortoise”, literally “shield-toad”), German Schildkröte (“tortoise”, literally “shield-toad”), Swedish sköldpadda (“tortoise”), Icelandic sjaldbaka (“turtle”, literally “shield-back”).
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