单词 | pardalote |
释义 | pardaloten. Any of several small short-billed Australian songbirds of the genus Pardalotus (belonging to the flowerpecker family Dicaeidae), having white spots and streaks on the wings and crown. Cf. diamond-bird n. at diamond n. Compounds 5. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > arboreal families > [noun] > family Dicaeidae (flower-pecker) > genus Pardalotus pardalote1848 forty-spot- 1826 J. F. Stephens Shaw's Gen. Zool. XIII. ii. 252 Olive-green Pardalotus, with the back spotted with fulvous.] 1848 J. Gould Birds Austral. II. 35 Pardalotus punctatus, Temm. Spotted Pardalote. 1848 J. Gould Birds Austral. II. 36 Pardalotus rubricatus, Gould. Red-lored Pardalote. 1901 A. J. Campbell Nests & Eggs Austral. Birds I. 441 The Red-tipped Pardalote occasionally breeds underground. 1961 Coast to Coast 1959–60 63 He pointed to where some pardalotes and sitellas were fluttering about the drooping branch of pepper-tree. 1991 I. Tree Ruling Passion John Gould (BNC) 100 Bynoe was to provide some of the most magnificent specimens to be featured in the Birds of Australia,..the painted finch and the yellow-rumped pardalote among them. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1848 |
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