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单词 aluco
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alucon.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin alucon-, aluco.
Etymology: < post-classical Latin alucon-, aluco owl (15th cent.) < Italian allocco tawny owl (a1336) < post-classical Latin ulucus barn owl (5th cent. in an isolated attestation), of imitative origin; compare classical Latin ulula owl (see owl n.). Compare scientific Latin aluco, specific name of the tawny owl ( Linnaeus Systema naturæ (ed. 10, 1758) 93), Aluco, former genus name of the barn owls ( J. Fleming Philos. Zool. (1822) II. 236).
Obsolete.
An owl; esp. the tawny owl, Strix aluco.In quot. 1753: the barn owl, Tyto alba, which was formerly placed in the genus Aluco.
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the world > animals > birds > order Strigiformes or owl > [noun] > family Strigidae > genus Strix > strix aluco (tawny owl)
jenny whooper1600
aluco1657
grey owl1673
ivy-owl1674
brown owl1678
tawny owl1766
wood-owl1809
hoot owl1885
the world > animals > birds > order Strigiformes or owl > [noun] > family Tytonidae > tyto alba (barn owl)
shritch?a1500
scritch owl1510
shritch-owl1538
strich1552
screech owl1567
shriek-owl1567
madge?1576
lich-owl1585
lich-fowl1611
jill-hooter1668
white owl1672
barn owl1674
church owl1678
aluco1753
padge1848
cherubim1864
squinch-owl1880
monkey-facec1940
1657 J. Rowland tr. J. Johnstone Hist. Wonderful Things of Nature vi. iv. 169 There are two kinds of Aluco's [L. Aluconis duo sunt genera], the greater, and the lesse.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. xii. 267 The Aluco, or Tuidara of Brasil is a kind of Owl, not unlike ours in shape.
1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Aluco, the name by which authors have called the common white owl.
1785 J. Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds III. 134 Tawny Owl, Syrnium Stridula, Aluco Owl.
1827 Synopsis Contents Brit. Mus. (ed. 25) 73 The nocturnal birds of prey of this order, consist of the snowy owl, or harfang, the aluco owl, the white, the short-eared, and the little owl, or cheveche.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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