单词 | grey pie |
释义 | > as lemmasgrey pie ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > non-arboreal (larks, etc.) > [noun] > family Laniidae (shrike) > genus Lanius > lanius excubitor mattagess1575 French pie1674 grey pie1678 murdering pie1688 white whisky john1772 1678 J. Ray tr. F. Willughby Ornithol. ii. xi. 87 The French do, not without reason, call it [sc. Lanius or Butcher] the Grey Pie. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. xi. 235/1 The Bucher Bird, or Shrike..This Bird is of some called..a Grey Pie. 1783 W. B. Tegetmeier Reprint of Boddaert's Table des Planches Enluminéez d’Hist. Nat. (1874) 43 Grey pie of Brasil. 1838 W. Swainson Nat. Arrangem. & Relations Flycatchers (Naturalist's Libr.: Ornithol. X) 102 One of these appears to be the Grey Pie of Edwards. 1920 R. Carpenter Plainsman & Other Poems 121 The grey pie whistles, the sheep-bird calls. < as lemmas |
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