单词 | red-eared |
释义 | red-earedadj.1 Of wheat or maize: having reddish ears. ΚΠ 1664 H. Oldenburg Let. 29 Sept. in R. Boyle Corr. (2001) II. 337 There being many sorts of wheat, as the white or red Lammas, the bearded Kentish wheat, the gray wheat, the red or gray pollard, the Ducks-bill wheat, the red eard bearded wheat etc. 1762 J. Mills New Syst. Pract. Husbandry I. 362 Their white kind of red ear'd wheat has a white ear and a red grain. 1843 Penny Cycl. XXV. at Triticum The wheats known in Great Britain..as Fox, Kentish,..red, white, and red-eared bearded wheats are varieties of T. hybernum. 1916 M. W. Onslow Anthocyanin Pigments Plants 195 The red-eared F1 plants tested gave red- and white-eared in Mendelian ratios. 1958 Amer. Jrnl. Bot. 45 39/1 Red-eared plants comprised 3.2 per cent of the colored class. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). red-earedadj.2 Chiefly in the names of animals, esp. birds: having red ears or red markings behind the eyes (see also Compounds). ΚΠ 1781 J. Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds I. i. 123 Red-eared owl, Strix Asio (Linn.). 1840 E. Blyth et al. Cuvier's Animal Kingdom 57 Red-eared Monkey (C. erythrotis)... From Fernando Po. 1848 J. Gould Birds Austral. III. Pl. 79 Estrelda oculea..Red-eared Finch. 1900 W. B. Yeats Shadowy Waters 46 A red-eared hound follows a hornless deer. 1937 R. H. Croll Wide Horizons 12 Red-eared Finches wheeze in their funny asthmatic way. 1976 Reader's Digest Compl. Bk. Austral. Birds 530 The shy and beautiful red-eared firetail is the most solitary of all Australian grass finches. 2003 Bird Keeper June 24/2 The black-rumped waxbill (Estrilda troglodytes ) is better known in aviculture as the red-eared waxbill. Compounds red-eared slider n. (also red-eared slider turtle) = red-eared turtle n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > reptiles > order Chelonia (turtles and tortoises) > [noun] > suborder Cryptodira > family Emydidae (freshwater turtles) > chrysemys scripta elegans or red-ear turtle red-eared terrapin1885 red-eared turtle?1928 redear1958 red-eared slider1961 1961 Valley News (Van Nuys, Calif.) 2 Nov. 5A/5 (advt.) Pet Fair... ‘Red Eared’ Slider Turtles 77¢. 2000 Today's Parent Oct. 18/3 Fast-growing is only part of the reason why parents should never buy red-eared sliders. red-eared sunfish n. = redear n. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > family Centrarchidae (sun-fish) > [noun] > member of genus Lepomis (sun-fish) bream1634 roach1637 sunfish1685 round robin1709 yellowbelly1775 redbelly1791 brim1795 sun perch1804 pumpkin seed1815 sunny1835 bluegill1877 redbreast1877 tobacco-box1877 red-eared sunfish1889 shell-cracker1889 sun1896 redear1931 1889 C. C. Abbott Days out of Doors 98 I think of creatures that may startle my maturer years as the great red-eared sunfish frightened an eager boy. 1927 Lake County Times (Hammond, Indiana) 22 Mar. 11/3 Daily bag limits will be..twenty-five per day on blue-gills, croppie, rock bass or google-eye, and red-eared sunfish. 1992 Alabama Game & Fish Feb. 22/2 During this month, the shellcracker bream (redeared sunfish) will be bedding. red-eared terrapin n. now chiefly British = red-eared turtle n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > reptiles > order Chelonia (turtles and tortoises) > [noun] > suborder Cryptodira > family Emydidae (freshwater turtles) > chrysemys scripta elegans or red-ear turtle red-eared terrapin1885 red-eared turtle?1928 redear1958 red-eared slider1961 1885 Trans. Kansas Acad. Sci. 1883–4 9 137 Pseudemys elegans, Pr. Max. Wied.: Red-Eared Terrapin. 1962 Jrnl. Exper. Biol. 567 (title) Olfactory and visual learning in the red-eared terrapin, Pseudemys scripta elegans (Wied.). 2007 Sunday Tel. (Nexis) 18 Feb. (News section) 7 Red-eared terrapins..are already living in ponds in the south-east of England after being released into the wild as unwanted pets. red-eared turtle n. an American pond slider of the subspecies Trachemys scripta elegans, having a red stripe behind the eye.This is the most popular turtle kept as a pet and is naturalized in parts of Europe and elsewhere. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > reptiles > order Chelonia (turtles and tortoises) > [noun] > suborder Cryptodira > family Emydidae (freshwater turtles) > chrysemys scripta elegans or red-ear turtle red-eared terrapin1885 red-eared turtle?1928 redear1958 red-eared slider1961 ?1928 Trans. Kansas Acad. Sci. 1922–8 31 135 Pseudemys elegans (Wied). Red-eared Turtle; Cumberland Terrapin. 1952 A. Carr Handbk. Turtles ii. 251 The red-eared turtle can usually be recognized..by the long, oval expansion of the broad supra temporal stripe, which is usually bright red. 1995 Herpetologica 51 354 (title) Year-to-year variation in growth in the red-eared turtle, Trachemys scripta elegans. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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