单词 | ornithogaea |
释义 | Ornithogaean. Zoology. Now historical and rare. P. L. Sclater's term for: a zoogeographical region comprising New Zealand and Polynesia, characterized by the existence of many birds unique to the region and by the absence of native land mammals except for bats. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > region of the earth > zone or belt > [noun] > biogeographical zone > specific moose yard1800 tsetse district1851 tsetse country1853 fly-country1864 Notogaea1868 floral zone1870 Ornithogaea1874 Nearctic1877 fly-belt1894 fertile crescent1914 alterne1916 Wallacea1928 pollen zone1929 1874 P. L. Sclater in Manch. Sci. Lect. 6th Ser. v. 79 We may divide our earth..into four divisions..IV... Ornithogæa—Bird-land. 1911 Encycl. Brit. XXVIII. 1005/1 Dr. Sclater..recognized three primary divisions [instead of Huxley's Notogaea], namely, Dendrogaea.., Antarctogaea.., and Ornithogaea. DerivativesΘΚΠ the world > the earth > region of the earth > zone or belt > [adjective] > biogeographical Hudsonian1835 Nearctic1858 neotropical1858 Palaearctic1858 palaeogean1858 palaeotropical1858 tropicopolitan1858 subregional1870 neotropic1877 Notogaean1879 Indogaean1885 Ornithogaean1890 Pontic1891 Notogaeic1896 ecogeographical1939 ecogeographic1951 1890 Cent. Dict. Ornithogæan realm. 1899 W. L. Sclater & P. L. Sclater Geogr. Mammals Introd. 11 Mr. Gill..has proposed a division of the Earth into nine ‘realms’... (8) The Ornitho-gæan (= New Zealand). This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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