different between africa vs jerboa

Italian

Adjective

africa

1. feminine singular of africo

Latin

Adjective

?frica

1. nominative feminine singular of ?fricus
2. nominative neuter plural of ?fricus
3. accusative neuter plural of ?fricus
4. vocative feminine singular of ?fricus
5. vocative neuter plural of ?fricus

Adjective

?fric?

1. ablative feminine singular of ?fricus

References

• africa in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• africa in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
• africa in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• africa in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

English

Etymology

From Arabic ????????? (jarb??) or ????????? (yarb??).

Noun

jerboa (plural jerboas)

1. Any of a number of species comprising most of the family Dipodidae, native to the deserts of Asia and northern Africa, being a small, jumping rodent with a long tufted tail, very small forefeet and very long hind legs.
   • 1814, Augustin Calmet, Charles Taylor, Edward Wells, Calmet's Great Dictionary of the Holy Bible, page 293,

     The Arabs, who are forbidden all other kinds of mice, esteem these the greatest delicacies: as those people often are disappointed in digging after them, they have this proverb, "To buy a hole instead of a jerboa."

   • 1999, Ronald M. Nowak (editor), Rodentia; Family Dipopidae: Birch Mice, Jumping Mice, and Jerboas, Walker's Mammals of the World, Volume 1, page 1329,

     The permanent burrows may have emergency exits — side tunnels ending at or near the surface — through which the jerboa "bursts" when threatened by a predator. Jerboas often lie on their side when sleeping in the burrow in order to better accommodate their long legs.

   • 2001, Peter Haggett (editor), China and Taiwan: Animal Life: Desert, River and Forest Specialists, Encyclopedia of World Geography, Volume 24, page 2796,

     The small mammals include typical desert forms such as the burrowing rodents of the jerboa family and the jird or gerbil subfamily. The jerboas, which are widespread across northern Africa and central Asia, are particularly well represented in China: 7 of the 10 genera and 10 of the 29 species occur in the arid, often cold deserts of the north and west.

Synonyms

• (rodent of family Dipodidae): dipodid

Translations

See also

• gerbil
• jird

Further reading

• jerboa on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Dipodidae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

Anagrams

• Jarboe

Finnish

Noun

jerboa

1. Partitive singular form of jerbo.