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单词 gambo-goose
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gambo-goosen.

Brit. /ˈɡambəʊˌɡuːs/, U.S. /ˈɡæmboʊˌɡus/
Origin: Of unknown origin.
Etymology: Origin unknown. The equivalent name in Willughby's Latin text (see quot. 1676) is gambensis (in Anser gambensis), but it is unclear whether the Latin name is modelled on the English one or vice versa.
Now historical and rare.
The spur-winged goose, Plectropterus gambensis, a large goose-like waterfowl common throughout sub-Saharan Africa.Sometimes confused in the literature with the very different Egyptian goose, Alopochen aegyptiacus.
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spurwing1842
spur-winged goose1843
1676 F. Willughby & J. Ray Ornithologiæ iii. 275 Anser Gambensis. The Gambo Goose.
1678 J. Ray tr. F. Willughby Ornithol. 361 The Gambo-Goose, or Spur-wing'd Goose.
1799 E. Donovan Nat. Hist. Brit. Birds IV. Pl. xciii Egyptian Goose..Gambo Goose.
1856 R. Tyas Cotton’s Beautiful Birds III. 137 Another species of the same group of long-legged Geese is the Spur-winged, or Gambo Goose.., a native of northern and more particularly of western Africa.
1861 J. C. Atkinson Brit. Birds' Eggs & Nests 96 Gambo-goose.—An accidental visitor indeed.
1994 C. E. Jackson Great Bird Paintings of World II. 72 The Egyptian goose..was recorded in England in St James's park in the mid-seventeenth century when it was called ‘gambo-goose’ or ‘spur winged goose’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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