| 单词 | cowpen-bird |
| 释义 | > as lemmascowpen-bird cowpen-bird n. U.S. = cow-bird n. 2a. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > arboreal families > family Icteridae > [noun] > genus Molothrus (cow-bird) cowpen-bird1731 cattle-bird1837 cow-birda1839 cow bunting1839 cow-troopial1839 cow blackbird1844 1731 M. Catesby Nat. Hist. Carolina (1754) I. 34 Passer fuscus. The Cowpen Bird... They delight much to feed in the Pens of Cattle, which has given them their name... They inhabit Virginia and Carolina. 1791 W. Bartram Trav. N. & S. Carolina (1792) 289 Sturnus stercorarius: the cowpen bird. 1826 in W. Hone Every-day Bk. (1827) II. 1138 There is a bird in the United States of America, called ‘Cowpen’, emberiza pecoris, by Wilson. 1887 C. C. Abbott Waste-land Wanderings ii. 55 The cowpen-bird, which is never mated, and for several months in the year deposits fertile eggs in the nests of other birds. < as lemmas |
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