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单词 mist-net
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mist-netn.

Brit. /ˈmɪstˌnɛt/, U.S. /ˈmɪs(t)ˌnɛt/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: mist n.1, net n.1
Etymology: < mist n.1 + net n.1
A net made of very fine threads, used to trap birds, etc., for ringing or examination.
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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.
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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.

Brit. /ˈmɪstˌnɛt/, U.S. /ˈmɪs(t)ˌnɛt/
Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: mist-net n.
Etymology: < mist-net n.
transitive. To trap in a mist-net. Also intransitive.
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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.
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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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