单词 | berghaan |
释义 | berghaann. South African. A South African eagle, esp. the bateleur eagle, Terathopius ecaudatus. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Falconiformes (falcons, etc.) > family Accipitridae (hawks, etc.) > [noun] > eagles > terathopius ecaudatus (bateleur) bateleur eagle1864 berghaan1867 dassievanger1867 mountebank eagle1890 1867 E. L. Layard Birds S. Afr. 11 Aquila Verreauxii..Dassie Vanger and Berghaan of Colonists... It is called ‘Dassie Vanger’ (coney-eater) and ‘Berghaan’ (mountain-cock) by the colonists, from feeding principally on the coney, or rock-rabbit (Hyrax capensis). 1889 H. A. Bryden Kloof & Karroo 273 Suddenly..comes..a great black mountain eagle. We know him at once for a berghaan. 1893 A. Newton Dict. Birds Berghaan (Mountain-cock), the name given to some of the larger Eagles, and especially to the beautiful Helotarsus ecaudatus..by the Dutch colonists in South Africa. 1910 J. Buchan Prester John viii. 146 A brace of white berghaan circled far up in the blue. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1867 |
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