词汇 | machete |
词源 | machete. A large, heavy knife often used for cutting brush and as a weapon. Machete is a word borrowed from Spanish in early 19th-century America. It is also the name of a tarpon of the Pacific Ocean, after the resemblance of the tarpon’s shape to a machete. |
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