释义 |
upupa Now rare exc. as the name of a genus.|ʊˈpuːpə| [L.] = hoopoe.
1601, etc. [see hoop n.3 1]. 1677[see hooping ppl. a.2]. 1688[see hoopoe]. 1922Joyce Ulysses 407 Agendath is a waste land, a home of screechowls and the sandblind upupa. [1979P. Matthiessen Snow Leopard i. 53 Then the first ray of sun in days strikes the harlequin feathers of a hoopoe, and I smile. Like many of the foothill birds, Upupa is a bird of Africa, but I saw one much more recently—last month, in fact—in the mountains of Umbria, in Italy.] |