| 单词 | longspur |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslongspur longspur n. any of several buntings of the chiefly American genus Calcarius (family Emberizidae or Calcariidae), characterized by long hind claws; esp. the Lapland bunting, C. lapponicus, which also breeds in arctic Eurasia. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > seed eaters > [noun] > family Emberizidae > subfamily Emberizinae (bunting) > genus Calcarius (longspur) snow-fleck1683 Lapland longspur1828 longspur1828 Lapland bunting1862 Smith's longspur1881 1828 C. L. Bonaparte Genera N. Amer. Birds 440 Lapland Longspur, Emberiza lapponica. 1894 R. B. Sharpe Hand-bk. Birds Great Brit. I. 77 The Long-spurs, of which the Lapland Bunting is the type, are three in number. 1953 D. A. Bannerman Birds Brit. Isles I. 314 While Calcarius lapponicus is the sole Palæarctic representative of the genus, the Nearctic fauna includes two other ‘Longspurs’—as they are called in America. 2005 P. A. Johnsgard Prairie Dog Empire vi. 92 Longspurs feed them a mixture of small grasshoppers, beetles, and the larvae of butterflies and moths. < as lemmas |
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