单词 | limpkin |
释义 | limpkinn. A name for the genus Aramus of birds, holding a place midway between the Cranes and the Rails; called also courlan n. (See quot. 1885.) ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Gruiformes > [noun] > member of family Aramidae (limpkin) guarauna1678 clocking hen1703 clucking hen?1740 limpkin1885 1885 Riverside Nat. Hist. (1888) IV. 127 The family of the limpkins or courlans is a very small one, consisting only of one genus of two species... Aramus pictus is restricted to Central America, the West Indies, and southern Florida. A. scolopaceus inhabits eastern South America. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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