| 单词 | common kingfisher |
| 释义 | > as lemmascommon kingfisher a. A small Eurasian bird, Alcedo atthis, with brilliant blue and orange plumage and a long pointed beak, which feeds on fish and other aquatic animals which it captures by diving. More fully common kingfisher.Various superstitions have been associated with the common kingfisher, some of which it shares with the halcyon (see halcyon n. 1a), with which it has often been identified. In particular, it was believed that a dried specimen hung up would by its position indicate the direction in which the wind was blowing. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Coraciiformes (kingfisher, etc.) > [noun] > family Alcedinidae kingfisher1440 the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Coraciiformes (kingfisher, etc.) > [noun] > family Alcedinidae > member of genus Ceryle kingfisher1440 pied kingfisher?1606 belted kingfisher1782 the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Coraciiformes (kingfisher, etc.) > [noun] > family Alcedinidae > dacelo novaeguineae (kookaburra) kingfisher1440 laughing jackass1798 settler's clock1827 jackass1844 goburra1860 Jack1863 kookaburra1890 Jacky1898 Jacko1907 kooka1933 the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Coraciiformes (kingfisher, etc.) > [noun] > family Alcedinidae > genus Alcedo > alcedo atthis (kingfisher) halcyona1393 coalmousea1425 kingfisher1440 α. β. a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1593) sig. V4v Cormoraunts glutt, Kites spoile, king fishers waste.1658 E. Phillips New World Eng. Words at Halcyon A bird called a King-fisher.a1667 A. Cowley On Poverty in Wks. (1711) III. 58 Here sad King-fishers tell their Tales.1768 T. H. Croker et al. Compl. Dict. Arts & Sci. (new ed.) II Merops, the bee-eater..a very beautiful bird, somewhat larger than the common king-fisher.1778 G. White Let. 7 Aug. in Nat. Hist. Selborne (1789) 238 The king-fisher darts along like an arrow.a1821 J. Keats Imitation Spenser in Poet. Wks. (1874) 22 There the kingfisher saw his plumage bright Vieing with fish of brilliant dye below.1863 Sporting Gaz. 19 Dec. 959/2 A fine male specimen of the kingfisher or halcyon was shot on the Links, Aberdeen, last week.1940 Illustr. London News 21 Sept. 384/1 In the course of the ages..species have come into being wherein male, female, and young are all alike resplendent, as with our kingfisher.1980 M. Shoard Theft of Countryside ii. ix. 84 Birds here are everywhere: herons, kingfishers, snipe, geese, swans, duck, bittern, curlews, warblers, woodpeckers and nightjars.2006 Lancs. Life Feb. 52/3 (caption) The turquoise and gold flash of a kingfisher may be seen on many Lakeland rivers. Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 275 Kyngys fyschare, lytylle byrde, isida. 1567 J. Maplet Greene Forest f. 108v Beare a naturall grudge the one to the other: as doth the Eagle and the Kings Fisher. 1628 T. May tr. Virgil Georgicks iii. 89 When..dew refreshing on the Pasture fields The Moone bestowes, Kings-fishers [L. alcyonen] play on shore. 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica b ij That a Kings fisher hanged by the bill sheweth where the winde is. 1797 E. Burke Lett. Peace Regic. France iii, in Wks. (1815) VIII. 326 This sanguine little king's-fisher (not prescient of the storm, as by his instinct he ought to be). 1962 J. R. R. Tolkien Let. 1 Aug. (1995) 318 Tom appears..with a ‘swan-wing feather’: to increase the riverishness, and to allow for the incident in the second poem, the gift of a blue feather by the king's fisher. < as lemmas |
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