zebra

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Any of three species of subgenus Hippotigris: Equus grevyi, Equus quagga, or Equus zebra, all with black and white stripes and native to Africa.
    — A group of zebras can be called a dazzle.
  2. A referee. slang
  3. An unlikely diagnosis, especially for symptoms probably caused by a common ailment. slang
    — "It's a zebra! George. OK, I should explain. A zebra is..." "Medical slang for coming to an exotic diagnosis when a more simple explanation is more likely." "That's right. I was convinced that George, given his age and symptoms, had some kind of cardiac issue. It fit, it made sense. Because I was looking for the obvious when I should have been looking for the zebra! George is just having an allergic reaction to a combination of chemicals from all the stains and paints he's been using in the garage."
  4. Someone who has Ehlers-Danlos syndrome or hypermobility spectrum disorder broadly
    — EDS charities around the world use a zebra logo to promote the idea that sometimes it really is that ‘rare’ condition.
  5. A biracial person, specifically one born to a Sub-Saharan African person and a white person. derogatory,ethnic,slang,slur
    — “People change countries for all kinds of reasons,” Ross tells me. “But at least one of them was that she had this light-skinned, mixed-race child who had already been called a zebra at school.”
  6. A zebra cichlid (Amatitlania nigrofasciata). informal
  7. Any of various papilionid butterflies of the subgenus Paranticopsis of the genus Graphium, having black and white markings.
  8. A zebra crossing.
    — On his way home he'd picked up two economy-sized bags of tortilla chips, and had dropped both when a twat in a Lexus honked him on a zebra . . .
  9. A fairy chess piece that is moved three squares in one direction and two at right angles to that direction in a single move, leaping over any intervening pieces.

词形变化

zebra plural zebras plural

词汇关系

衍生词
Burchell's zebra Cape mountain zebra Chapman's zebra common zebra Crawshay's zebra Damaraland zebra Grant's zebra Grevy's zebra Hartmann's mountain zebra maneless zebra mountain zebra Persian zebra plains zebra (Equus quagga Selous's zebra zebra acara zebra antelope zebra blue butterfly zebra butterfly zebra cake zebra caterpillar zebra chip zebra cichlid zebra crossing zebra danio zebra dove zebra duiker zebra finch zebrafish zebra fish zebra giraffe zebra haworthia zebraic zebralike zebra lionfish zebra mongoose zebra mouse zebra mule zebra mussel zebra opossum zebra parakeet zebra parrot zebra plant zebra poison zebra seahorse zebra shark zebra spider zebrass zebra striping zebra swallowtail zebra-tailed lizard Callisaurus draconoides zebra turkeyfish zebra wolf zebrawood zebrine zebroid zeedonk zeehorse zorse Zululand zebra
相关词
quagga Equus burchelli Equus grevyi Equus quagga Equus zebra

词源

First attested in 1600. Borrowed from Italian zebra, from Portuguese zebra, zebro (“zebra”), from Old Galician-Portuguese enzebro, ezebra, azebra (“wild ass”), from earlier cebrario (882), ezebrario (897), from Vulgar Latin *eciferus, from Latin equiferus (“wild horse”) (Pliny), from equus (“horse”) + ferus (“wild”).
While the word was traditionally pronounced with a long vowel in the first syllable in standard English, during the twentieth century a vowel shift occurred in regions of England, with the shortening of the first vowel. This pronunciation is now used throughout the UK and most Commonwealth nations. The long-vowel pronunciation remains standard in Canadian and American English and is used in the UK only by some older, conservative RP speakers.
(unlikely diagnosis): Originates in the advice often given to medical students, "when you hear hoofbeats, think of horses, not zebras".
(referee): In reference to the black and white striped shirts they wear.
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