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单词 rock pipit
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rock pipitn.

Brit. /ˈrɒk ˌpɪpɪt/, U.S. /ˈrɑk ˌpɪpᵻt/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: rock n.1, pipit n.
Etymology: < rock n.1 + pipit n.
A dark-coloured pipit, Anthus petrosus, of rocky shores in north-west Europe.Formerly regarded as conspecific with the water pipit, A. spinoletta.
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sea-lark1602
rock-lark1771
rock pipit1830
water pipit1831
shore pipit1837
sea-titling1872
tang-sparrow1880
1830 Trans. Cambr. Philos. Soc. 3 348/2 (list) Case VII... Anthus arboreus. Tree Pipit... [Anthus] petrosus. Rock Pipit.
1831 J. Rennie Montagu's Ornithol. Dict. (ed. 2) 427 Rock pipit, (Anthus rupestris, Nilsson.)... This species appears to have remained long either unnoticed, or confounded with others, by the early ornithologists.
1862 C. A. Johns Brit. Birds 175 The Rock Pipit is very similar in form and colour to the last species [sc. the Meadow Pipit].
1896 C. Dixon Brit. Sea Birds 269 The Rock Pipit..is an olive-brown little bird.
a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) I. xx. 595 The gulls, the terns, the cormorants, and the rock-pipits are birds of the shore and the relatively shallow waters in the vicinity.
1979 M. Shrubb Birds of Sussex (BNC) 8 This survey showed three pairs of Rock Pipits nesting in the cliffs east of Hastings.
2006 Bird Watching Aug. 71/4 The rocky shoreline attracts familiar waders such as Oystercatcher and Turnstone... Also present is the aptly named Rock Pipit.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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