| 单词 | night partridge |
| 释义 | > as lemmasnight partridge night partridge n. U.S. regional the American woodcock, Scolopax minor. ΚΠ 1888 G. Trumbull Names & Portraits Birds 153 Dr. G. B. Grinnell..tells us that the woodcock is known to some in the seaboard counties of Virginia as Night Partridge. 1951 Amer. Speech 26 278 Folk names alluding to nocturnal activity include..three names for the woodcock (nightflit, N.C.; night partridge, Md., Va., N.C., Ontario, and night peck, Ontario). < as lemmas |
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