单词 | lorilet |
释义 | loriletn. Ornithology. Any of several very small, mainly green, short-tailed parrots of the genera Opopsitta and Psittaculirostris, native to the rainforests of north-east Australia and New Guinea. Also called fig-parrot. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Psittaciformes (parrots, etc.) > [noun] > miscellaneous types of lovebird1597 king parrot1803 vasa1811 king's parakeet1826 king lory1837 love-parrot1852 conure1858 king parakeet1865 ring-neck1879 love-parakeet1889 palette1890 lorilet1901 sackie1951 1901 A. J. Campbell Nests & Eggs Austral. Birds II. 600 During my own Cardwell camp-out (1885) we procured skins of the Blue-faced Lorilet. 1929 Emu 1 Oct. 81 Is there any genus of Australian birds, containing more than one species, so little known as the Lorilets or Fig-Parrots? 1966 Eastman & Hunt Parrots Austral. 46 The Lorilets are almost impossible to distinguish from each other in flight. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1997; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < n.1901 |
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