| 单词 | mist-net | 
| 释义 | mist-netn.  A net made of very fine threads, used to trap birds, etc., for ringing or examination. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > collection or conservation of natural specimens > 			[noun]		 > equipment for collecting or preserving > of birds Heligoland trap1935 mist-net1947 rocket net1948 1947   [implied in:   Far East Q. 6 46  				Mist netting for birds in Japan. (at mist-net v.)]. 1955    Amer. Midland Naturalist 53 82  				Japanese silk ‘mist nets’ were stretched between cypress trees near a vampire colony. 1956    Brit. Birds 50 450  				Mist nets, a traditional Japanese method of catching birds, were introduced to British ringers at a meeting of the Bird Observatories Committee in January. 1971    Daily Tel. 18 June 7/1 (Colour Suppl.)  				Birds are..snared in a ‘mist net’ (a long net erected on poles, which is of so fine a mesh that the birds cannot see it). 1999    Nat. Hist. Sept. 37 		(caption)	  				Chris Rimmer..removes a bird from a mist net. Derivatives  ˈmist-netter  n. a person who uses a mist-net. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > collection or conservation of natural specimens > 			[noun]		 > equipment for collecting or preserving > of birds > one who uses mist-netter1960 1960    Brit. Birds 53 526  				The capture of rare and difficult forms..is now within the province of every mist-netter. 1983    Q. Rev. Biol. 58 449/1  				A number of former mouse-trapping mammalogists, turned bat mist-netters, have been performing research. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). mist-netv.  transitive. To trap in a mist-net. Also intransitive. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > collection or conservation of natural specimens > 			[verb (intransitive)]		 > bird-trapping mist-net1947 1947    Far East Q. 6 46  				Mist netting for birds in Japan. 1972    Science 1 Sept. 806/3  				Bats are mist-netted near cattle. 1993    Nature 5 Aug. 525/2  				The test birds had been mistnetted during the previous winter. Derivatives  ˈmist-netted adj. ΚΠ 1972    Ecology 53 318/2  				Biomass figures were derived by multiplying the derived densities..by mean body weight values obtained from mist-netted birds. 2000    Jrnl. Applied Ecol. 37 1013  				We measured wing and tarsus FA on mist-netted birds..from south-eastern Atlantic rain forest in Brazil. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). <  | 
	
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