"kongamato" meaning in English

See kongamato in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Etymology: From Kaonde [Term?] (literally “breaker of boats”). Etymology templates: {{der|en|kqn|lit=breaker of boats}} Kaonde [Term?] (literally “breaker of boats”) Head templates: {{en-noun|?}} kongamato
  1. (cryptozoology) A pterosaur-like cryptid of Africa. Categories (topical): Cryptozoology
    Sense id: en-kongamato-en-noun-QsxVxLAj Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry Topics: biology, cryptozoology, natural-sciences, zoology
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "kqn",
        "lit": "breaker of boats"
      },
      "expansion": "Kaonde [Term?] (literally “breaker of boats”)",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Kaonde [Term?] (literally “breaker of boats”).",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "?"
      },
      "expansion": "kongamato",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Cryptozoology",
          "orig": "en:Cryptozoology",
          "parents": [
            "Forteana",
            "Zoology",
            "Pseudoscience",
            "Biology",
            "Sciences",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1958, Bernard Heuvelmans, On the tracks of unknown animals:",
          "text": "[…] the kongamato like the olitiau is in the habit of diving at men crossing its territory — perhaps trying to drive them away […]",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2000, E. Randall Floyd, The world's 100 greatest mysteries: strange secrets of the past revealed:",
          "text": "[…] swamp conceals a terrifying \"lizard bird\" called the kongamato.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2002, George M. Eberhart, Mysterious Creatures: A Guide to Cryptozoology, Volume 2:",
          "text": "When crossing rivers, some of them carried amulets that would protect them from a Kongamato.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Oliver Ho, Mysteries Unwrapped: Mutants & Monsters:",
          "text": "Also described as being like a giant bat, the Kongamato has large teeth, red leathery skin, and a wingspan of four to seven feet.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A pterosaur-like cryptid of Africa."
      ],
      "id": "en-kongamato-en-noun-QsxVxLAj",
      "links": [
        [
          "cryptozoology",
          "cryptozoology"
        ],
        [
          "pterosaur",
          "pterosaur"
        ],
        [
          "cryptid",
          "cryptid"
        ],
        [
          "Africa",
          "Africa"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(cryptozoology) A pterosaur-like cryptid of Africa."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "biology",
        "cryptozoology",
        "natural-sciences",
        "zoology"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "kongamato"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "kqn",
        "lit": "breaker of boats"
      },
      "expansion": "Kaonde [Term?] (literally “breaker of boats”)",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Kaonde [Term?] (literally “breaker of boats”).",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "?"
      },
      "expansion": "kongamato",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English nouns with unknown or uncertain plurals",
        "English terms derived from Kaonde",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Kaonde term requests",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "en:Cryptozoology"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1958, Bernard Heuvelmans, On the tracks of unknown animals:",
          "text": "[…] the kongamato like the olitiau is in the habit of diving at men crossing its territory — perhaps trying to drive them away […]",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2000, E. Randall Floyd, The world's 100 greatest mysteries: strange secrets of the past revealed:",
          "text": "[…] swamp conceals a terrifying \"lizard bird\" called the kongamato.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2002, George M. Eberhart, Mysterious Creatures: A Guide to Cryptozoology, Volume 2:",
          "text": "When crossing rivers, some of them carried amulets that would protect them from a Kongamato.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Oliver Ho, Mysteries Unwrapped: Mutants & Monsters:",
          "text": "Also described as being like a giant bat, the Kongamato has large teeth, red leathery skin, and a wingspan of four to seven feet.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A pterosaur-like cryptid of Africa."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "cryptozoology",
          "cryptozoology"
        ],
        [
          "pterosaur",
          "pterosaur"
        ],
        [
          "cryptid",
          "cryptid"
        ],
        [
          "Africa",
          "Africa"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(cryptozoology) A pterosaur-like cryptid of Africa."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "biology",
        "cryptozoology",
        "natural-sciences",
        "zoology"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "kongamato"
}

Download raw JSONL data for kongamato meaning in English (1.9kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-09-22 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-09-20 using wiktextract (af5c55c and 66545a6). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.