chevrotain

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈʃɛvɹə(ʊ)teɪn/

名詞

Any of several small hornless ruminants of the family Tragulidae (genera Hyemoschus, Moschiola, and Tragulus), native to tropical rainforests of South and Southeast Asia, and Central and West Africa; a mouse deer.

日本語の意味

小型の角のない反芻動物。トラグリダエ科に属し、南部および東南アジア、中央および西アフリカの熱帯雨林に生息しており、「mouse deer（マウスディード）」とも呼ばれる。

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At dusk in the rainforest, a solitary chevrotain slipped silently between the ferns, its small size and delicate legs belying its status as a true ruminant.

夕暮れの熱帯雨林で、一頭のマウスジカがシダの間を音もなくすり抜け、その小さな体と華奢な足は真の反芻動物であることを感じさせなかった。

詳細

意味（1）

Any of several small hornless ruminants of the family Tragulidae (genera Hyemoschus, Moschiola, and Tragulus), native to tropical rainforests of South and Southeast Asia, and Central and West Africa; a mouse deer.

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.

詳細

chevrotains （ plural ）