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单词 racket-tail
释义 ˈracket-tail
[f. racket n.2]
A (bird's) tail shaped like a tennis-racket; hence used as a name for various species of humming-birds and motmots having tails of this form.
1851Jardine Contrib. Ornith. 111 The beautiful species S[pathura] Underwoodii, with its white boots and racket tail.1861Gould Humming Birds III. Pl. 162 Spathura Underwoodi, white-booted Racket-tail.Ibid. 164 S. Peruana, Peruvian Racket-tail.1893Newton Dict. Birds 446 The lateral feathers may..suddenly enlarge into a terminal spatulation as in the forms known as ‘Racquet-tails’.
So ˈracket-tailed a., having a racket-tail.
1812Shaw Gen. Zool. VIII. i. 317 The Racket-tailed Humming Bird is a rare species, and is a native of South America.1833Jardine Humming-Birds II. 110 Rough-legged Racket-tailed Humming-Bird.1894Naturalist on Prowl 178 The ever-changing..notes of the Racket-tailed Drongo.
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