单词 | macaroni penguin |
释义 | > as lemmasmacaroni penguin 5. In full macaroni penguin. The penguin Eudyptes chrysolophus, of subantarctic regions, which has a golden crest. [Apparently so called because its crest was thought to resemble the coiffure of the ‘macaronis’ (sense 2). The Pall Mall Gaz. Extra of 24 July 1884, p. 29/2, gives from a print of 1777 two figures of headdresses then in use, one of which is called ‘the macaroni’. Compare also quot. 1823 at sense 2.] ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Sphenisciformes or penguin > [noun] > eudyptes chrysolophus (macaroni) macaroni1832 1832 A. Earle Tristan d'Acunha in Narr. Resid. N.Z. 336 Those I saw are called the Macaroni Penguin... From the head..is placed a bunch of bright yellow feathers..; it is from these fantastic feathers (I should imagine) they receive their name of ‘Macaroni’. 1838 E. A. Poe Narr. A. G. Pym in Wks. (1864) IV. 123 The maccaroni, the jackass and the rookery penguin. 1860 Ibis 2 338 This bird is called in the Falkland Islands the Maccaroni Penguin... It has an orange-coloured crest. 1885 Encycl. Brit. XVIII. 492/1 Eudyptes, containing the crested Penguins, known to sailors as..‘Macaronis’. 1955 Times 16 May 5/4 15 penguins were hatched and reared in the Edinburgh Zoo—seven kings, four gentoos, three maccaronis, and one ringed. 1989 National Geographic Mar. 346/2 The macaroni penguin population exceeds three million breeding pairs. < as lemmas |
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