单词 | cinereous crow |
释义 | > as lemmascinereous crow 1. Of an ashy hue, ash-coloured, ashen-gray; spec. in names of birds having ash-coloured feathers, as the cinereous crow, cinereous eagle, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > animal body > markings or colourings > [adjective] > ash-coloured cinereous1661 cinerealc1878 the world > matter > colour > named colours > grey or greyness > [adjective] > ashy grey crane1517 crane-coloured1549 crane-feather1557 ash-coloura1586 subcineritious1657 cinereous1661 cinerealc1878 1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia Isagoge sig. A5 [The] partridg, grecian, reddish, cinereous, white, and damascen. 1769 T. Pennant in Philos. Trans. 1768 (Royal Soc.) 58 92 The whole back is of a very deep cinereous colour. 1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) I. 142 Cinereous crows..brave the severest winter. 1803 W. Bingley Animal Biogr. II. 233 Great Cinereous Shrike. 1865 P. H. Gosse Land & Sea (1874) 14. < as lemmas |
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