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单词 dragoon-bird
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dragoon-birdn.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: dragoon n., bird n.
Etymology: < dragoon n. + bird n., with reference to the bird's crest of feathers, which resembles the plumage on the ceremonial uniform of a dragoon.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: draˈgoon-bird.
A Brazilian bird ( Cephalopterus ornatus), having a large, umbrella-like crest of feathers above the bill; also called umbrella-bird.
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1864 in Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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