| 单词 | red-legged crow |
| 释义 | > as lemmasred-legged crow red-legged crow n. C. Graculus.extracted from crown.1red-legged crow red-legged crow n. now rare = red-legged chough n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > larger song birds > family Corvidae (crow) > [noun] > genus Pyrrhocorax > species graculus (chough) cowec1230 Cornish crow1552 chough1553 sea-crow1579 killigrew1668 sea-chough1672 Cornish jay1750 red-legged crow1776 red-legged chough1831 1776 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. (ed. 4, octavo) I. ii. 228 Crow..Red Legged... The legs and bill are of a bright orange, inclining to red. 1875 W. McIlwraith Guide Wigtownshire 139 These precipices are frequented by the red-legged crow. 1906 J. A. Harvie-Brown Fauna of Tay 144 The old local name of the Chough in most parts of Scotland..was ‘Red-legged Crow’ or ‘Daw’. 1996 Eng. Hist. Rev. 111 312 Throughout the early modern period the cliffs of western Britain were frequented by the red-legged crow (Pyrrhocorax), then known as the ‘Cornish Chough’. < as lemmas |
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