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单词 eagle-hawk
释义 eagle-ˈhawk
1. Transl. of Fr. aigle-autour, Cuvier's name for a South American bird of prey of the genus Morphnus, called Spizaëtus by Vieillot.
The name is found in Griffith's transl. (1829) of Cuvier's Règne Animal, but never came into English use.
2. An Australian bird of prey, Uroaëtus audax.
1827in J. Bischoff Van Diemen's Land (1832) 177 The eagle-hawk pouncing upon them for his prey.1848J. Gould Birds of Australia I. pl. 1 Aquila Fucosa..Wedge-tailed Eagle. Eagle Hawk, Colonists of New South Wales.a1882H. C. Kendall Poems (1886) 159 The fierce-featured eagle-hawk flies—afraid as a dove is afraid.1911C. E. W. Bean ‘Dreadnought’ of Darling xii. 105 A big black eagle-hawk.1965H. Frauca Bk. Austral. Wild Life 93 Some cattlemen..suggested that the local wedgetails be classified as vermin because they were scratching the cattle. One cattleman said that two of his cows had been ‘badly scratched by them eagle-hawks’.
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