| 单词 | rain-pie |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrain-pie c. More fully rain-pie, (now rare) wood-pie. Any of various woodpeckers, esp. (a) the greater spotted woodpecker, Dendrocopos major (cf. French pie n.2 2) (now rare); (b) the green woodpecker, Picus viridis. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Piciformes > [noun] > family Picidae > genus Picus (woodpecker) woodhackc1440 woodwall1490 woodpecker1530 woodhacker1548 woodpeck1552 woodspite1555 woodspeckc1560 modwall1572 eat-bill1598 speck1601 tree-jobber1601 hecco1604 eat-bee1608 knag1639 French pie1783 pie1783 nicker-pecker1787 rind-tabberer1848 peckerwood1859 nickle1885 nicker1886 1783 Ainsworth's Thes. Linguæ Latinæ (new ed.) ii Pīcus,..a woodpecker, a speckt, a hickway, or heighhould; a French pie, a whitwall. 1840 W. Macgillivray Hist. Brit. Birds III. 80 Greater spotted woodpecker..wood-pie, French-pie. 1873 W. P. Williams & W. A. Jones Gloss. Somersetshire 29 Rain pie, woodpecker, yuckle. 1885 C. Swainson Provinc. Names Brit. Birds 98 Great Spotted Woodpecker..Wood pie (Staffordshire; Hants)... Lesser Spotted Woodpecker..Little wood pie (Hants). 1913 H. K. Swann Dict. Names Brit. Birds 187 Rain-bird, Rain-fowl, or Rain-pye: The Green Woodpecker... It is still a country belief that when the cry of this bird is much heard rain will follow. 1999 Guardian 13 May i. 18/7 Other soggy names [for the green woodpecker] include rain-pie, weather cock and storm cock. < as lemmas |
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