eider
/ˈaɪdə//ˈaɪdɚ/
- n.
- 绒鸭，绒鸭绒
中文释义来自 ECDICT
词源链
- 英语English
eider
词源说明
From Icelandic æður, from Old Norse æðr, which see for more.
The word appears in various European languages in the first half of the 18th century with the growth of the Icelandic eiderdown trade. It can have reached English directly, but may have passed through Danish (obsolete ejder, now edder), as Denmark controlled this trade, or alternatively through Low German, which still saw usage as a trade vernacular until about that time.
释义
名词noun
- 1Any of the species of Somateria spp. and Polysticta stelleri or of the seaduck subfamily Merginae, which line their nests with fine down (taken from their own bodies).