单词 | fody |
释义 | fodyn. Any of the weaver birds constituting the genus Foudia (family Ploceidae), the members of which are native to Madagascar, Mauritius, and other islands of the western Indian Ocean, and have yellowish-grey plumage, with bright red, yellow, or chestnut parts (esp. the head, neck, and tail coverts) in breeding males. Frequently with distinguishing word. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > seed eaters > family Ploceidae > [noun] > subfamily Ploceinae (weaver) > other or unspecified types of mountain spink1611 ring sparrow1678 oxbird1738 fody1792 mountain finch1800 fox-sparrow1869 grasshopper sparrow1883 quelea1930 1792 J. Leslie tr. Comte de Buffon Nat. Hist. Birds III. 450 (heading) The Foudi [Fr. les Foudis]. 1865 Ibis 1 337 The ‘Fody’, or Foudia madagascariensis. 1964 Behaviour Suppl. No. 10 140 The Seychelles Fody has lost colour and probably also a song. 1977 G. Durrell Golden Bats & Pink Pigeons i. 23 Scarlet and black Fodys perched like guardsmen in the heath or flying like scraps of fire across the road. 2010 P. F. Donald et al. Facing Extinction 108 The Mauritius Fody Foudia rubra..has suffered through habitat degradation and the introduction to its island home of predators. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1792 |
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