| 单词 | prairie plover |
| 释义 | > as lemmasprairie plover prairie plover n. any of several plovers occurring on the prairies; esp. the mountain plover, Charadrius montanus. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Scolopacidae (snipes, etc.) > [noun] > bartramia longicauda (Bartram's sandpiper) highland plover1839 prairie plover1851 prairie snipe1851 prairie pigeon1874 the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > [noun] > family Charadriidae > genus Pluvialis > pluvialis dominica (American golden plover) green plover1550 whistling plover1668 golden plover1766 frost bird1803 greenback1843 prairie plover1851 prairie snipe1851 prairie pigeon1874 kolea1888 squealer1888 1851 W. Kelly Excursion to Calif. I. v. 83 A stand of prairie plover most opportunely made their appearance as we pulled up. 1888 G. Trumbull Names & Portraits Birds 173 Bartramia longicauda... In Southern Wisconsin,..in 1851 this bird..was known as the Prairie Plover, and also as the Prairie Snipe. 1940 E. T. Seton Trail of Artist-naturalist xxxii. 299 The white-tailed longspurs, the prairie plover, were all gone, wholly routed by the plough. 1954 M. Sandoz Buffalo Hunters iv. 105 The dainty little prairie plover that rose singly, at forty, fifty yards and soared gently away. 1994 Auk 111 505/2 The name of the Mountain Plover has always been considered a misnomer... Rather most field biologists think of it as either the ‘you-can-see-the-mountains-from-here’ plover or the ‘prairie’ plover. < as lemmas |
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