| 单词 | rhinoceros hornbill |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrhinoceros hornbill rhinoceros hornbill n. a large hornbill of rainforests in Malaysia and Indonesia, Buceros rhinoceros, having black and white plumage and a large upturned casque. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Coraciiformes (kingfisher, etc.) > [noun] > family Bucerotidae (hornbill) > buceros rhinoceros rhinocerot1613 rhinoceros1614 rhinocerot bird1678 rhinoceros birda1684 rhinoceros hornbill1781 unicorn hornbill1811 rhino bird1905 1781 J. Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds I. 341 Rhinoceros Hornbill is full four feet in length, and is as big as a middle-sized Turkey. 1888 Murie in J. S. Kingsley Riverside Nat. Hist. IV. 404 Such a great, unwieldly, horned bird as the rhinoceros hornbill. 1940 C. Wells North of Singapore vii. 152 The Malay jungle is full of the most spectacular birds in the world, including..the giant Rhinoceros Hornbill, which has the habit of walling its mate into a hollow tree at nesting time. 2004 Sunday Times Trav. Feb.–Mar. 161/1 Some 350 species can be seen, from crested firebacks and rhinoceros hornbills to prized forest-floor gems such as the striped wren-babbler. < as lemmas |
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