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单词 hen hawk
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hen hawkn.

Brit. /ˈhɛn hɔːk/, U.S. /ˈhɛn ˌhɔk/, /ˈhɛn ˌhɑk/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: hen n.1, hawk n.1
Etymology: < hen n.1 + hawk n.1, with allusion to the fact that birds of this kind were reputed to prey on poultry.
North American. Now rare (chiefly historical).
Any of several large hawks or buzzards; esp. the red-tailed hawk ( Buteo jamaicensis), the red-shouldered hawk ( B. lineatus), or (more fully blue hen hawk) the goshawk ( Accipiter gentilis) in its adult plumage. Cf. chickenhawk n. 1.
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the world > animals > birds > order Falconiformes (falcons, etc.) > family Accipitridae (hawks, etc.) > [noun] > genus Accipiter > accipiter atricapillus (hen-hawk)
hen hawk1742
partridge hawk1772
goshawk1890
the world > animals > birds > order Falconiformes (falcons, etc.) > family Accipitridae (hawks, etc.) > [noun] > genus Buteo (buzzard) > buteo lineatus (red-shouldered hawk)
hen hawk1742
winter falcon1785
red-shouldered buzzard?a1808
winter hawk1811
red-shouldered hawk1812
the world > animals > birds > order Falconiformes (falcons, etc.) > family Accipitridae (hawks, etc.) > [noun] > genus Buteo (buzzard) > buteo jamaicensis (red-tailed hawk)
hen hawk1742
red-tailed hawk1805
redtail1812
red-tailed buzzard1832
rabbit-hawk1851
1742 J. Bartram Let. in Corr. (1992) 178 This..is certainly ye louse of A great hen hawk.
1792 W. Bartram Trav. N. & S. Carolina (new ed.) ii. x. 286 F[alco]. gallinarius; the hen hawk.
1806 M. Lewis Jrnl. 3 Mar. in Jrnls. Lewis & Clark Exped. (1990) VI. 375 I have observed..the hawk of an intermediate size with a long tail and blewish coloured wings remarkably swift in flight and very firce. Sometimes called in the U' States the hen hawk.
1854 H. D. Thoreau Walden 173 Or sometimes I watched a pair of hen-hawks circling high in the sky, alternately soaring and descending.
1864 A. Monro Hist., Geogr., & Statistics Brit. N. Amer. 139 This is the most troublesome hawk to the farmer; it is called blue hen hawk; it flies very fast.
1907 ‘N. Blanchan’ Birds Every Child should Know xv. 218 Both of these slandered ‘hen-hawks’ prefer to live in low, wet, wooded places with open meadows for hunting grounds near by.
1913 J. Muir in J. T. Price Tallgrass Prairie Reader (2014) 116 We discovered a hen-hawk's nest on the top of a tall oak.
2014 J. Sandrock & J. C. Prior Sci. Nomencl. Birds Upper Midwest 10 Goose hawk, blue hen-hawk, blue darter, partridge hawk.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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