| 单词 | ivory-bill |
| 释义 | > as lemmasivory-bill ivory-bill n. a species of woodpecker, Picus or Campephilus principalis: cf. ivory-billed adj. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Piciformes > [noun] > family Picidae > genus Picus (woodpecker) > other types of ivory-bill1787 redhead1816 Gila1858 zebra woodpecker1884 1787 Ellicott Almanac 1788 (Winchester, Va.) sig. B2 The land fowls [of Kentucky] are turkeys, pheasants,..the perraquet, ivory-bill, woodcock, and the great owl. 1872 E. Coues Key to N. Amer. Birds 191 The ivory-bill and the flicker stand nearly at extremes of the family. 1893 A. Newton et al. Dict. Birds: Pt. II 460 Ivory-bill, an abbreviation of Ivory-billed Woodpecker, so called from the colour of its beak, Picus or Campephilus principalis. < as lemmas |
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