单词 | pied-billed |
释义 | > as lemmaspied-billed pied-billed adj. designating a New World grebe, Podilymbus podiceps, the breeding adult of which has a whitish bill with a black band around it. ΚΠ 1771 G. Edwards M. Catesby's Nat. Hist. Carolina II. Index Dobchick, pied billed. [The text indexed has Pied-Bill Dobchick.] 1785 T. Pennant Arctic Zool. II. 517 (Index of Plates) Pied-billed Grebe, No 418. 1839 D. H. Storer & W. B. O. Peabody Rep. Fishes, Reptiles & Birds Mass. 377 The Pied-billed Grebe, or Dobchick, Podiceps Carolinensis, comes to us from the north early in autumn. 1992 New Brunswick Outdoor Adventure Guide 27/1 The 20,000 acre Trantramar marsh supports the world's densest concentration of nesting pied-billed grebes and marsh hawks. < as lemmas |
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