单词 | avocet |
释义 | avocetn. One of the Wading birds (Grallatores), allied to the Snipes and Stilts, specially distinguished by its flexible upturned beak. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > [noun] > family Recurvirostridae > member of genus Recurvirostra (avocet) scooper1668 shoeing-horn1668 crooked-bill1705 cobbler's awl1759 picarini1770 yelper1770 avocet1771 scooping avocet1776 red-necked avocet1823 bluestocking1844 shoehorn1864 1674 J. Ray Coll. Eng. Words 94 Avosetta Italorum: Recurvirostra.] 1771 T. Pennant Tour Scotl. 1769 10 Numbers of Avosettas, called there Yelpers, from their cry. 1776 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. (ed. 4, octavo) II. ii. 504 An Avoset that we shot weighed thirteen ounces. 1863 Sat. Rev. 284 Drainage has banished the avoset..and the godwit from our eastern marshes. 1881 M. Watkins in Academy 27 Aug. 163/2 1840 was the last year in which the avocet is known to have bred in England. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1771 |
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