| 单词 | pigeon's egg |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspigeon's egg pigeon's egg n. = pigeon egg n. at Compounds 2a. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > egg > [noun] > type of addle eggc1275 goose-eggc1394 wind-egg1398 pigeon's egg1651 the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Columbiformes (pigeons, etc.) > [noun] > family Columbidae > pigeon > parts of pigeon's egg1651 gravel eye1855 1651 J. French tr. J. R. Glauber Descr. New Philos. Furnaces 70 There found a kinde of stones, round or oval in form, and in bigness like unto a pigeons or hens-egg. 1747 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 44 452 It differs in Magnitude, as it does in Figure, from the Bulk of a Pigeon's Egg up to four or five times that Size. 1890 Cent. Dict. at Pigeon Pigeon's egg, a bead of Venetian glass, the form and size of which give rise to the name. Such beads were produced as early as the fifteenth century, and very ancient ones are preserved. 1996 Observer (Nexis) 16 June 7 Pigeons' eggs, snatched from nests overlooking Trafalgar Square. < as lemmas |
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