英语词汇cachalot的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	cachalot
词源	cachalot. A cachalot is a sperm whale, the foremost example of which is Moby Dick. The word is French in origin, meaning “toothed,” or perhaps comes from the Latin cacabus, “pot, skull.” “The two characteristics of the sperm whale are its teeth and cranial reservoir,” Weekley explains.
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