| 单词 | great plover |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgreat plover great plover n. †(a) the greenshank, Tringa nebularia (cf. greater plover n. at greater adj., adv., and n. Compounds 3) (obsolete); (b) the stone curlew, Burhinus oedicnemus (now rare). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > [noun] > genus Burhinus (thick-knees) > burhinus oedicnemus (stone curlew) caladriea1425 whistling plover1668 stone curlew1678 stone plover1678 great plovera1705 Norfolk plover1766 stone-snipe1785 a1705 J. Ray Synopsis Avium & Piscium (1713) App. 190 Pluvialis major, Aldrov. Limosa Gesneri. The great Plover of Aldrovand, called here, The Curlew. 1752 J. Hill Gen. Nat. Hist. III. 472 The green-legged Numenius, with a white rump... This, though honoured with the name of the great Plover, is not a very large bird. 1797 R. Beilby & T. Bewick Hist. Brit. Birds I. 321 (heading) The Great Plover. Thick-knee'd Bustard, Stone Curlew, Norfolk Plover. 1843 W. Yarrell Hist. Brit. Birds II. 381 The Great Plover..is..much more numerous in the southern and south-eastern counties of England than far to the west, or to the north. 1950 A. W. Boyd Coward's Birds Brit. Isles (rev. ed.) 2nd Ser. 251 The Stone-Curlew, Great Plover, Norfolk Plover or Thick-knee.., has many names, none of which is specially local. < as lemmas |
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