| 词汇 | anaconda |
| 词源 | anaconda. This is one of the few English words, if not the only, that comes to us from Singhalese. Anaconda probably de- rives from the Singhalese henakandayā, although this word means “lightning stem” and refers to Ceylon’s whip snake, not the large snake we know as the anaconda. Weekley notes that “the mistake may have been due to a confusion of labels in the Leyden museum.” |
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