A cat of a breed having no tail or an extremely short one.
马恩岛猫
Example sentencesExamples
Domestic cats have been selected by humans to display a wide array of body shapes and colors, from hairless forms to long-haired Persians and tail-less Manx cats to very large Maine coon cats.
The Manx cats have either no tails or very short ones and are believed to have originated after a spontaneous mutation on the island hundreds of years ago.
I use Manx cats as an example of a recessive lethal gene, and leave students space to describe it on the form, but it is rare in this area.
In A Room of One's Own, Woolf's narrator ‘watched the Manx cat pause in the middle of the lawn as if it too questioned the universe…’.
Animal lovers can go marvel at the stumpy tails on those cute genetic mutants the Manx cats at the Mann Cat Sanctuary, or pat the sweet, retired horses at the Home of Rest for Old Horses.
Definition of Manx cat in US English:
Manx cat
nounˈmaNGks ˌkatˈmæŋks ˌkæt
A cat of a breed having no tail or an extremely short one.
马恩岛猫
Example sentencesExamples
Animal lovers can go marvel at the stumpy tails on those cute genetic mutants the Manx cats at the Mann Cat Sanctuary, or pat the sweet, retired horses at the Home of Rest for Old Horses.
Domestic cats have been selected by humans to display a wide array of body shapes and colors, from hairless forms to long-haired Persians and tail-less Manx cats to very large Maine coon cats.
In A Room of One's Own, Woolf's narrator ‘watched the Manx cat pause in the middle of the lawn as if it too questioned the universe…’.
I use Manx cats as an example of a recessive lethal gene, and leave students space to describe it on the form, but it is rare in this area.
The Manx cats have either no tails or very short ones and are believed to have originated after a spontaneous mutation on the island hundreds of years ago.