| 单词 | red-winged starling |
| 释义 | > as lemmasred-winged starling red-winged starling n. (a) North American = red-winged blackbird n. (now rare); (b) any of several African starlings of the genus Onychognathus with red feathers on the wings; esp. O. morio of eastern and southern Africa. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > arboreal families > family Icteridae > [noun] > genus Agelaius > agelaius phoeniceus (red-winged blackbird) red-winged starling1729 red-winged blackbird?1769 maize thief1772 redwing1778 red-winged oriole1785 red-winged troopial1825 redwing blackbird1830 maize-bird1836 maizer1837 swamp blackbird1891 officer1902 1729 M. Catesby Nat. Hist. Carolina I. i. Pl. 13 Sturnus niger alis superne rubentibus. The red wing'd Starling. ?a1808 Genuine & Univ. Syst. Nat. Hist. VIII. 358 At the Cape, they call this bird berg-sprew, mountain starling; or rooge-vlerk sprew, red-winged starling. 1864–5 J. G. Wood Homes without Hands 537 One of the most variable of birds in its nesting is the well known Red-winged Starling of North America. 1902 S. Clapin New Dict. Amer. 292 Officer bird, a common name, especially in Canada and the Northern States, for the red-winged starling. 2000 Jrnl. Southern Afr. Stud. 26 659 The red-winged starling's penchant for berries of cestrum [was blamed] for that poisonous shrub's rapid spread in the Knysna division. < as lemmas |
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