Crash
See also: crash
Translingual
Etymology
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Translingual Crash
Coined by paleontologists Travouillon, Hand, Archer, and Black in 2012. Primarily named after video game franchise Crash Bandicoot; reference was also made to the genus unexpectedly "crashing" out of a rainforest environment into the semiarid environment of modern bandicoots.
Proper noun
Crash m
- A taxonomic genus within the family Peramelidae – an extinct bandicoot, known from a single fossilized mandible of the Middle Miocene epoch (15 mya) at the Riversleigh World Heritage Area.
Hypernyms
- (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Deuterostomia – infrakingdom; Chordata – phylum; Vertebrata – subphylum; Gnathostomata – infraphylum; Tetrapoda – superclass; Mammalia – class; Theria – subclass; Marsupialia – infraclass; Peramelemorphia – order; Peramelidae – family; Peramelinae – subfamily
Hyponyms
- (genus): Crash bandicoot
References
- Crash on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
German
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
Crash m (strong, genitive Crashes or Crashs, plural Crashes or Crashs)
- crash
- Synonyms: Zusammenstoß, Kollision
- (computing) crash (malfunction of computer software)
- Synonym: Absturz
Declension
Declension of Crash [masculine, strong]
Further reading
- “Crash” in Duden online