| 单词 | ringing frog |
| 释义 | > as lemmasringing frog 2. In the names of animals, as ringing bird, ringing caterpillar, ringing frog, etc. Now historical. ΚΠ 1709 W. Dampier Contin. Voy. New-Holland ii. 74 One sort of these pretty little Birds my Men call'd the Ringing-bird; because it had six Notes, and..repeated all his Notes twice one after another. 1724 Derham Notes Albin's Eng. Insects Index Ringing Caterpillar [the chrysalis of which could make a glass ring like a bell]. 1802 R. Kerr tr. Comte de Buffon Nat. Hist. Oviparous Quadrupeds & Serpents II. 235 The Ringing Frog... The specific name is derived from its voice, which is clear, round, and ringing. 1880 W. H. D. Adams Eastern Archipel. ii. i. 220 The air is often startled by the peculiar music of a thrush, which Dampier calls the ‘ringing-bird’. 1993 D. F. Lach & E. J. Van Kley Asia Making of Europe III. iii. xviii. 1464 (note) Wallace..could not identify Dampier's ringing bird. < as lemmas |
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