单词 | mealy duck |
释义 | > as lemmasmealy duck mealy duck n. Eng. regional (E. Anglian) (now rare) an immature long-tailed duck, Clangula hyemalis. ΚΠ 1878 Zoologist Aug. 289/2 Long-tailed Duck. Mealy-bird.] 1885 C. Swainson Provinc. Names Brit. Birds (Index) Mealy bird or -duck. 1890 T. Southwell Stevenson's Birds Norfolk III. 219 The immature long-tailed duck is known to the Blakeney gunners as the ‘little mealy duck’. 1906 W. A. Dutt Wild Life E. Anglia (App. I.) 357/1 Little Mealy Duck—Long-tailed Duck. < as lemmas |
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