| 单词 | green swallow |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgreen swallow green swallow n. (a) any of several New World swallows of the genus Tachycineta, with greenish-blue plumage; esp. the tree swallow, T. bicolor, of North America; (now rare); †(b) either of two perching birds of Central and South America, the swallow-tailed cotinga, Phibalura flavirostris (family Cotingidae), and the swallow tanager, Tersina viridis (family Thraupidae) (obsolete rare). ΚΠ 1831 R. Jameson Wilson & Bonaparte's Amer. Ornithol. (rev. ed.) II. 48 Hirundo viridis, Wilson.—H. bicolor, Vieill. Green, Blue, or White Bellied Swallow. 1837 W. Swainson On Nat. Hist. & Classif. Birds II. 74 The third aberrant division [of chatterers] is indicated by the European chatterer, the singular fork-tailed genus Phibalura (P. flavirostris Vieil.) and the Procnias ventralis Ill., or green swallow of Brazil. 1849 P. H. Gosse in E. Gosse Life Philip Henry Gosse (1890) viii. 223 Received green swallow from Jamaica. 1903 Catal. Coll. Birds' Eggs Brit. Mus. III. 235 Tachycineta albilinea... The eggs of the Central-American Green Swallow in the Collection measure respectively: ·67 by ·51; ·7 by ·52. < as lemmas |
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