单词 | red-rumped |
释义 | red-rumpedadj. In the names of birds and other animals: having a red rump or lower back. See also Compounds. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > parts of or bird defined by > [adjective] > relating to rump > having a red rump red-rumped1752 1752 J. Hill Gen. Nat. Hist. III. 367 The red-rumped Parrot..is one of the largest of the Parrot-kind. 1776 P. Brown Nouvelles Illustr. de Zool. 70 (heading) The Red-rumped Wax-billed Finch. 1782 J. Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds I. ii. 420 Red-rumped Oriole. Oriolus hæmorrheus. 1815 J. F. Stephens Shaw's Gen. Zool. IX. i. 405 Red-Rumped Bunting (Emberiza quadricolor). 1894 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words Red-rumped thrush, the missel thrush. 1948 Ecol. Monogr. 18 440/1 A little red-rumped lady-bird beetle (Scymnus haemorrhous) occurred rather commonly in February and March at Sarasota. 1997 Jrnl. Trop. Ecol. 13 595 This pattern can be largely explained by the highly restricted seed shadows imparted by the main seed dispersal agents of Bertholletia at this site, the red-rumped agouti (Dasyprocta leporina). Compounds red-rumped parakeet n. = red-rumped parrot n. ΚΠ 1812 G. Shaw Gen. Zool. VIII. ii. 422 Red-rumped Parrakeet. 1987 E. W. Burr Compan. Bird Med. iii. 18/2 Vicious behaviour of this nature is most prevalent in rosellas (Platycercus spp.), Redrumped Parakeets (Psephotus haematonotus ), [etc.]. 2005 Parrots Apr. 22/2 My female Red-rumped Parakeet had died of egg-binding, and the surviving male (Yang) was lonely and dejected. red-rumped parrot n. a parrot of south-eastern Australia, Psephotus haematonotus, which has mainly green plumage with a red rump. ΚΠ 1752 J. Hill Gen. Nat. Hist. III. 367 The red-rumped Parrot..is one of the largest of the Parrot-kind. 1969 J. M. Forshaw Austral. Parrots 214 Seeds of grasses and herbaceous plants are the food of the Red-Rumped Parrot. 1988 Austral. Jrnl. Zool. 36 335 We observed the effect of several flock and extrinsic variables on the vigilance and foraging behaviour of red-rumped parrots..and galahs. red-rumped swallow n. a Eurasian and African swallow, Hirundo daurica, which has a chestnut nape and a pale rufous rump. ΚΠ 1840 Madras Jrnl. Lit. & Sci. 11 237 H. erythropygia, Sykes.—Red-rumped Swallow. 1915 Auk 32 283 Chelidon daurica rufula (Temm.). Red-rumped Swallow.—One pair; Dead Sea, May 6. 2006 Daily Tel. 15 Nov. 7/3 The elegant red-rumped swallow should have been on its annual migration from the southern Mediterranean to its wintering grounds in Africa. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1752 |
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