单词 | goldeneye |
释义 | goldeneyen. 1. a. Either of two northern, migratory sea ducks of the genus Bucephala, with black and white plumage and golden-yellow eyes; esp. the common B. clangula, which breeds in the taiga of Eurasia and North America. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Anseriformes (geese, etc.) > subfamily Merginae (duck) > [noun] > genus Bucephala > bucephala clangula (golden-eye) cur1621 goldeneye1622 shelden1674 whistling duck1699 four-eyes1755 garrot1829 jingler1829 great-head1843 musselcracker1845 whistle-wing1872 ironhead1888 whiffler1888 1622 M. Drayton 2nd Pt. Poly-olbion xxv. 106 The Gossander..With whom the Widgeon goes, the Golden-Eye, the Smeath. 1678 J. Ray tr. F. Willughby Ornithol. 368 The Golden-eye..The Irides of the Eyes are of a lovely yellow or gold-colour. 1710 W. Derham in Philos. Trans. 1708–09 (Royal Soc.) 26 466 Anas Platyrhynchosmas Aldrov. The Golden-Eye. 1766 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. ii. 154 Golden Eye... These birds frequent fresh water, as well as the sea. 1810 G. Crabbe Borough xxii. 306 Or sadly listen to the tuneless cry Of fishing Gull or clanging Golden-Eye. 1870 Athenæum 20 Aug. 232/3 Widgeon, teal, golden-eye, and other duck, abound in the neighbourhood of Quickjock. 1975 Countryman Autumn 118 The Moray Firth area in winter..may contain 3 per cent of the wigeon population of north-western Europe, and there are also significant numbers of teal, pintail, goldeneye, goosanders and whooper swans. 2005 Chesapeake Life Dec. 21/1 Take a guided birdwatching tour and see thousands of ruddy ducks, canvasbacks, scaup, buffleheads, goldeneyes, and other waterfowl. ΚΠ 1827 N. A. Vigors & T. Horsfield in Trans. Linn. Soc. 15 315 Lunulata..‘This bird’, Mr. Caley says, ‘is called Golden-Eye by the settlers’. 1898 E. E. Morris Austral Eng. 164/2 Golden-eye, the bird Certhia lunulatu [sic], Shaw; now called Melithreptus lunulatus, Shaw, and classed as White-naped Honeyeater. ΚΠ 1870 N. F. Hele Notes or Jottings about Aldeburgh viii. 158 The Tufted Duck, Anas fuligula, Montagu, is locally called the ‘Golden Eye Daver’. 1896 A. Newton Dict. Birds 368 Golden-eye, a name indiscriminately given in many parts of Britain to two very distinct species of Ducks... The commonest of them [is] the Anas fuligula of Linnæus. 2. Any of numerous flying insects constituting the family Chrysopidae, many of which have eyes with a metallic golden lustre; a green lacewing. Also more fully goldeneye fly, goldeneye lacewing. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > division Endopterygota or Metabola (winged) > [noun] > order Neuroptera > suborder Planipennia > family Chrysopidae or genus Chyrsopa > member of goldeneye1681 plant-louse-lion1763 lacewing1831 aphis-lion1870 stink-fly1902 1681 N. Grew Musæum Regalis Societatis i. 156 The Golden-eye. Musca Chrysopis, as Mufet [sc. Thomas Moffett] calls it. The Eye of this Fly is very curious, not only with its golden colour, but in being most elegantly latticed. 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Chrysopis, the golden eye,..a species of fly, so called from the beautiful gold colour of its eyes. 1862 Chambers's Cycl. Golden-eye Fly (Hemerobius perla or Chrysopa perla). 1977 O. W. Richards & R. G. Davies Imms's Gen. Textbk. Entomol. (ed. 10) II. 805 Chrysopidae... This family includes a large number of closely related species popularly known as ‘green lacewings’ or ‘golden eyes’. 2005 V. Harms Dreaming of Animals i. 41 The eye of the goldeneye lacewing..has a background of black topped by a six-pointed star. 3. North American. Either of the two North American moon-eyes (fishes) constituting the genus Hiodon; esp. the goldeye, H. allosoides, which has large eyes with a metallic golden lustre. Cf. goldeney n. ΚΠ 1882 J. Macoun Manitoba & Great North-west 378 Hyodon chrysopis,..Golden Eye. 1902 F. M. Johnson Forest, Lake & River II. 241 (heading) The moon-eyes or golden eyes. 2001 T. M. Berra Freshwater Fish Distribution 60 Goldeneye tolerate turbid waters, feed mostly at night, and have only rods but no cones in their retinas. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1622 |
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