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graze: graze: [OE] There is no difficulty about the etymology of graze ‘feed on grass’: it was formed in Old English times as a derivative of the noun græs (modern English grass). But what about graze in the sense ‘scrape lightly’, first recorded in the 17th century? In the absence of any convincing alternative candidates, it is usually taken to be simply a special use of graze ‘feed on grass’, in the sense ‘remove grass close to the ground’, as some animals do in grazing – like a ‘close shave’, in fact.
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来自myxoma,黏液瘤，-osis,炎症。引申词义兔黏液瘤病，一种仅对兔子有效，对人和其它动物无效的传染病，有时用做草原灭兔子用。

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