单词 | ringed turtle-dove |
释义 | > as lemmasringed turtle-dove ringed turtle-dove n. any of several doves of the genus Streptopelia; (now esp.) (U.S.) the domesticated ring-neck or Barbary dove, ‘ S. risoria’. ΚΠ 1835 W. Macgillivray Hist. Brit. Birds I. 254 Only four species [of pigeons and doves] occur in Britain, three of which are resident, the fourth, the Ringed Turtle-Dove, migratory. 1875 Zoologist 10 4616 Ringed Turtle Dove (Turtur capicola).—The ringed turtle dove is closely related to the bird that we have kept in cages in England. 1916 R. Ridgway Birds North & Middle Amer. (Bull. U.S. National Mus. No. 50) VII. 386 Streptopelia Risoria... Ringed Turtle Dove. Adult male.—Pileum and nape vinaceous-buff to tilleul-buff; [etc.]. 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. 2005 D. S. Maehr & H. W. Kale Florida's Birds (ed. 2) 115 The Ringed Turtle-Dove has been bred in captivity for hundreds of years. < as lemmas |
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