单词 | lyre-bird |
释义 | > as lemmaslyre-bird lyre-bird n. an Australian bird, Menura superba or M. novæhollandiæ, resembling a pheasant with a beautiful lyre-shaped tail. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > [noun] > family Menuridae (lyre-bird) mockingbird1777 mountain pheasant1800 Menura1802 lyre-bird1834 buln-buln1857 lyre-tailed pheasant1885 1834 G. Bennett Wanderings New S. Wales I. 277 The ‘Native or Wood-pheasant’, or ‘Lyre bird’ of the colonists. 1872 A. Domett Ranolf & Amohia i. iii. 7 Curved like the lyre-bird's tail half spread. < as lemmas |
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