单词 | ring-dove |
释义 | ring-doven. 1. The wood pigeon, Columba palumbus, which has a white neck patch on each side of the neck, appearing to form a partial ring. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Columbiformes (pigeons, etc.) > [noun] > family Columbidae > genus Columba > columba palumbus (wood-pigeon) cushata700 culverc825 wood-culvera1100 wood-dovec1386 queest?1440 ringed dove?1533 ring-dove1538 wood-quest1543 wood pigeon1668 ring pigeon1776 woodie1947 1538 T. Elyot Dict. Palumba, a..rynge douue. 1587 W. Harrison Hist. Descr. Iland Brit. (new ed.) iii. ii. 223/1 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) I Foules producted by the industrie of man, as betweene..the fesant and the ringdooue. 1606 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. (new ed.) ii. iv. 61 This doth make The Ring-Doue turn, that brings the Culuer back. 1625 T. Middleton Game at Chæss iv. iv The Diuels in't, I'm taken by a Ring-doue. 1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry (1721) I. 262 I got a pair of Ring-doves Eggs, and hatch'd them under a tame pigeon. 1794 R. Southey Sonn. i Listening in solitude the ring-dove's note, Who pours like me her solitary song. c1850 C. Kingsley Misc. (1860) I. 167 The murmur of the ring-dove comes soft and sleepy through the wood. 1892 P. H. Emerson Son of Fens 19 The old ring-dows soon left—they was only arter the corn lying on the land and the peas and beans. 1932 A. Bell Cherry Tree xvii. 238 We too remembered its cuckoo, its ring-dove, its owls, its host of lesser birds. 1959 D. A. Bannerman Birds Brit. Isles VIII. 324 The wood-pigeon, or ring-dove, requires little introduction, so familiar is it both to country and town folk in these islands. 2003 G. Spedding Nat. Hist. Garden i. 19 The largest pigeon..is often called the ring-dove because of the prominent neck patches. 2. The domesticated ring-neck or Barbary dove, ‘ Streptopelia risoria’. Also: either of the collared doves S. decaocto and S. roseogrisea, which are closely related (or ancestral) to this. ΚΠ 1831 H. McMurtrie tr. G. Cuvier Animal Kingdom I. 361 Col. risoria..(The Ring Dove.) Appears to be originally from Africa. 1841 Penny Cycl. XX. 15/1 The term Ring Dove is also applied to the Collared Turtle, Columba risoria. 1894 A. Newton et al. Dict. Birds: Pt. III 790 Ring-Dove, properly Columba palumbus..; but a name often misapplied to the Collared or Barbary Dove. 1919 C. O. Whitman Inheritance, Fertility, & Dominance of Sex & Color in Hybrids of Wild Species of Pigeons II. 194 Stejneger uses ‘ring-dove’ for the domestic bird; ‘ringed turtle-dove’ for the wild species of China and Japan. 1959 D. A. Bannerman Birds Brit. Isles VIII. 380 The recent A.O.U. 1957 Check-list supported Hartert and named the resident Barbary (ring) dove of western America as Streptopelia risoria... Whistler, in using S. risoria for the Indian collared (ring) dove, presumably did not agree with Hartert. 1964 A. L. Thomson New Dict. Birds 632/1 The African form of the Collared Dove..is the ancestor of the domesticated Barbary Dove or Blonde Ringdove. 1994 C. McCarthy Crossing 193 There was nothing to shoot save the little ringdoves coming in to water. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1538 |
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