beccaccian.
/bɛkˈkattʃa/ A woodcock.
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the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Scolopacidae (snipes, etc.) > [noun] > member of genus Scolopax (woodcock)
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wood-snitec1050
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beccaccia1855
wood-snipe1887
1855 R. Browning Old Pictures in Florence xxxv, in Men & Women II. 47 Fine as the beak of a young beccaccia.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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n.1855- look on formerly also to the etc side of
- look on formerly also to the etc side of something
- look on the black side
- look on the bright side
- look on the bright side of
- look on the bright side of something
- look on the dark side
- look on the dark side of
- look on the dark side of something
- look on the etc side
- look on the etc side of
- look on the etc side of something
- look on the gloomy side
- look on the positive side
- look on the wine when it is red
- look on with a different eye
- look on with another eye
- look one way and row another
- look one's age
- look one's best
- look one's last
- look one'the last
- look oneself
- look out
- look out for