单词 | cricket teal |
释义 | > as lemmascricket teal cricket teal n. British regional (now rare) the garganey, Anas querquedula, the male of which has a grating call. ΚΠ 1813 G. Montagu Suppl. Ornithol. Dict. at Garganey Provincial, Cricket-teal. 1885 C. Swainson Provinc. Names Brit. Birds 158 Garganey... Cricket teal. From its cry. Cf. Cric cric (Jura); Criquet (savoy); Kriechentlein (Germany). 2007 Guardian 21 May 33/2 Another name [for the garganey], hardly heard today, is cricket teal... The garganey I was watching suddenly uttered a low-pitched buzzing sound—very like that of a grasshopper or cricket. < as lemmas |
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