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单词 grass snipe
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grass snipe
grass snipe n. chiefly U.S. any of several sandpipers; esp. the pectoral sandpiper, Calidris melanotos; cf. grassbird n. (b).
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1796 J. G. Stedman Narr. Exped. Surinam I. xiv. 367 The same morning I brought home two birds, the one called toreman, the other a species of grass-snipe.
1891 Boston Daily Globe 18 Apr. 9/1 Grass snipe, fresh killed, $1 to $1.25 a dozen.
1960 E. W. Teale Journey into Summer xxvii. 278 We saw a pectoral sandpiper circling overhead. What was a ‘grass snipe’ doing in this dry, flat land?
2001 R. S. Sharpe et al. Birds Nebraska 179/1 Pectoral Sandpipers will also forage in drier areas of a wetland that are grown over with short vegetation..giving rise to its nickname ‘grass snipe’.
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