单词 | owl-faced |
释义 | owl-facedadj. Having a face resembling that of an owl, with the eyes large and round, surrounded by circular markings, etc.; (of an object) bearing a representation or likeness of an owl's face. Also figurative. ΚΠ 1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes ii. f. 309v To begette suche foule babies & oule faced doudes. 1855 Brit. Q. Rev. July 186 To such a man..official cant, and owl-faced common-places, must be ever abominable. 1875 Proc. 7th Ann. Session Amer. Philol. Assoc. 20 Parallels are found in the vases with the long, upright, beak-shaped mouth..; but no ‘owl-faced’ vessels..appear. 1897 S. Crane in Cent. Mag. Feb. 604/2 There was no owl-faced clock to chant the weariness of the long silence that brooded upon the plain. 1916 Amer. Anthropologist 18 502 Certain forms of pipes show how widely prevalent certain concepts were among the Huron-Iroquois. Briefly these are the owl-faced pipe, the blowing pipe with the human face, [etc.]. 1956 Jrnl. Hellenic Stud. 76 120/2 Characteristic of Troy III are the so-called ‘owl-faced’ vases. 2000 Beirut Times (Nexis) 24 Feb. 1 Government, send away the owlfaced ambassador! CompoundsΚΠ 1885 Cassell's Encycl. Dict. V. i Owl-faced bat. owl-faced monkey n. (a) = owl monkey n. at owl n. Compounds 3; (b) a central African guenon, Cercopithecus hamlyni. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > order Primates > suborder Anthropoidea (higher primates) > [noun] > family Cebidae > genus Aotus (night-monkey) douroucouli1821 night-ape1863 owl-faced monkey1863 night monkey1877 owl monkey1877 1863 H. W. Bates Naturalist on River Amazons II. ii. 102 The nocturnal, owl-faced monkey (Nyctipithecus trivirgatus). 1929 Times 17 May 18 (caption) A pair of douroucoulis, or nocturnal owl-faced monkeys, one of the feline, the other of the three-banded species, recently acquired by the Zoo. 1991 Biotropica 23 73/2 Density estimates varied greatly among species, spanning three orders of magnitude from blue monkeys (Cercopithecus mitis) to the exceedingly rare endemic owl-faced monkey (C. hamlyni). This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1542 |
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