单词 | houbara |
释义 | houbaran. A bustard, Chlamydotis undulata, found in North Africa and Asia as far east as India and Iran, and formerly included in a genus Houbara. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Gruiformes > [noun] > family Otididae > member of (bustard) bustarda1475 gustardc1540 pou1798 native turkey1822 houbara1827 Stanley bustard1831 1827 J. Malcolm Sketches Persia I. 56 The beautiful speckled Hubara, with his head erect and wings out~spread. 1836 Penny Cycl. VI. 59/2 Arabs are accustomed to compare the eyes of their most beautiful women to those of the Oubara. 1876 Encycl. Brit. IV. 579/1 Two species, known indifferently by the name of Houbara (derived from the Arabic), frequent the more southern portions of the [Palæarctic] Region. 1883 List Vertebrated Animals Gardens Zool. Soc. (ed. 8) 517 Houbara Bustard. 1905 J. I. S. Whitaker Birds Tunisia II. 285 North of the Mediterranean the Houbara is of merely accidental occurrence, but it inhabits North-east Africa. 1925 Blackwood's Mag. Mar. 339/1 The hobara, or lesser bustard. 1963 Times 24 May 13/7 The great Houbara bustard yielded, as evidence of its continued presence..only a single stray feather in one area and a couple of sucked eggs. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1827 |
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