| 单词 | greater yellowlegs |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgreater yellowlegs 1. Now usually in plural. Either of two North American migratory sandpipers, Totanus flavipes (more fully lesser yellowlegs) and T. melanoleuca (more fully greater yellowlegs), having long, thin, dark beaks, long yellow legs, and a grey-brown body with dark markings and pale underparts. Occasionally: †a yellow-legged domestic fowl (obsolete). T. flavipes and T. melanoleuca are also called yellow-legged sandpiper and yellowshank. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > family Phasianidae (pheasants, etc.) > genus Gallus (domestic fowl) > [noun] > types of rumpkin1676 bantam1749 Jersey blue1758 Dorking1779 Plymouth Rock1806 Java1813 shack-bag1816 Negro fowl1835 creeper1847 Minorca1848 cuckoo fowl1850 Leghorn1850 Brahmapootra1851 Ancona1853 shanghai1853 Andalusian1854 Bolton bay1854 Corsican cock1854 jacinth1854 Minorca1854 spangle1854 yellow leg1854 Crèvecœur1855 sultan1855 Hamburg1857 Leghorn1857 Yokohama1865 Houdan1871 Langshan1871 Wyandot1881 sultan hen1882 silkie1885 Orpington1887 rock1889 silver-grey1889 Campine1892 Rhode Island Red1893 Faverolles1902 Rhode Island White1905 Malines1906 Rhode Island1914 Australorp1922 maranc1934 the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Scolopacidae (snipes, etc.) > [noun] > member of genus Tringa > tringa flavipes (yellow-legs) yellow-legged plover1778 yellowshank1785 telltale1813 yellow leg1889 the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Scolopacidae (snipes, etc.) > [noun] > member of genus Tringa > tringa melanoleuca stone-snipe1785 yellowshank1785 telltale1813 turkey-back1888 yellow leg1889 1772 J. Forster in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 62 410 Scolopax... This bird is called a yellow leg at Albany fort. a1792 S. Hearne Journey from Prince of Wales's Fort (1795) vi. 170 In the marshes [we saw] some curlews and plover; plenty of hawks-eyes,..and some yellow-legs. 1854 Poultry Chron. 2 129 A pen of Brahmas—one pea-comb, two single-combs, one white-legs, two yellow-legs. 1889 Field & Stream 31 Jan. 22/2 Totanus melanoleucus, Greater Yellowlegs.—Common migrant in August, September and October... Totanus flavipes, Lesser Yellowlegs.—Common in August and September, and sometimes seen in spring. 1938 D. C. Peattie Prairie Grove xix. 121 The yellowlegs and the plovers came back then, teetering, piping, foraging. 1994 Canad. Yachting Summer 36/3 I try in vain to capture the greater yellowlegs with my zoom. 2006 Bird Watching Aug. 113/3 A Lesser Yellowlegs was a good find at RSPB Freiston Shore, near Boston, Lincolnshire. < as lemmas |
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