单词 | eagle-hawk |
释义 | eagle-hawkn.ΚΠ ?a1775 W. Bartram Trav. Georgia & Florida in Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. (1943) 33 165/1 The great Eagle Hawk..has a red Tail, barred across with dark brown. 2. Australian. Any large bird of prey; esp. the wedge-tailed eagle, Aquila audax. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Falconiformes (falcons, etc.) > family Accipitridae (hawks, etc.) > [noun] > eagles > genus Aquila > aquila audax (wedge-tail) eagle-hawk1805 wedge-tail1935 1805 Sydney Gaz. 16 June An eagle hawk rose from the spot with a large viper secured within its talons. 1848 J. Gould Birds Austral. I. pl. 1 Aquila Fucosa..Wedge-tailed Eagle. Eagle Hawk, Colonists of New South Wales. a1882 H. C. Kendall Poems (1886) 159 The fierce-featured eagle-hawk flies—afraid as a dove is afraid. 1911 C. E. W. Bean ‘Dreadnought’ of Darling xii. 105 A big black eagle-hawk. 1965 H. Frauca Bk. Austral. Wild Life 93 One cattleman said that two of his cows had been ‘badly scratched by them eagle-hawks’. 2013 Wildlife Soc. Bull. 37 470/1 Declared bird species included emu, wedge-tailed eagle (Aquila audax), and the loosely defined eagle hawk, which could be taken to include almost any raptor. 3. Any of various birds of prey; esp. any of the hawk eagles (genus Spizaetus and related genera). Now chiefly historical.The name was originally used for birds of the genus Morphnus of Cuvier, most of which have been reassigned to other genera. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Falconiformes (falcons, etc.) > family Accipitridae (hawks, etc.) > [noun] > eagles > other types of duck-eagle1731 eagle-hawk1829 martial eagle1829 lammervanger1830 serpent eagle187. 1829 E. Griffith et al. Cuvier's Animal Kingdom VI. 230 It seems intermediate between the eagles properly so called, and the Morphni, or eagle hawks of Cuvier. 1876 Johnson's New Universal Cycl. I. 1445/1 Eagle Hawk (Morphnus), a name given to several species of bird of prey.., similar in form to the eagle, but inferior in size. 1907 Nelson's Encycl. (rev. ed.) VI. 112/1 Hawk Eagle, or Eagle Hawk, a crested eagle of the genus Spizaëtus, especially S. bellicosus of South Africa. 1955 Proc. U.S. National Mus. 104 484 This magnificent crested eagle-hawk was rare but well known at Caicara. 2003 H. Lee Jones Birds of Belize (2010) 63/2 Black-and-white Hawk-Eagle...Spizastur melanoleucus Other names. Black-and-white Eagle-Hawk (arch.). This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.?a1775 |
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