| 单词 | frog-catcher |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfrog-catcher frog-catcher n. (a) A person or animal who hunts frogs; (b) a type of bird. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Ciconiiformes (storks, etc.) > [noun] > family Ardeidae (herons and bitterns) > genus Ardea (heron) > miscellaneous types of blue heron1565 white heron1575 blue heron1731 squacco1752 frog-catcher1782 purple heron1785 great blue1838 Goliath1860 1782 J. Price Some Observ. Publ. intitled Trav. Europe (ed. 2) 52 If he really was so fond of frogs, as is said, he need not to have kept a frog-catcher, for in frog season, the time of the rains, my servants had no small difficulty in keeping of them out of the house. 1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) I. 212 Quaw bird or Frog Catcher, Ardea clemata. 1862 J. Richardson Museum Nat. Hist. XXXII. 264/1 The frog-eating harrier (Circus ranivorus)..so addicted to that diet which is sometimes said to be also a favourite with his countrymen, that even the Dutch boors..had given it the name of Kikvore vanger, or the ‘Frog-catcher’. 1934 Wilson Bull. 46 76 The crow is somewhat of a fisherman and frog-catcher. 2006 R. George et al. Offbeat S. Afr. iii. 58 Chrissiesmeer really is a frog catcher's paradise. < as lemmas |
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