| 单词 | russet kingfisher |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrusset kingfisher c. In the names of birds and plants with reddish-brown parts, as †russet kingfisher, russet sedge, russet starling, russet wheatear, etc. ΚΠ 1704 Nat. Hist. ii, in L. Wafer New Voy. & Descr. Isthmus Amer. (ed. 2) 186 Russet Kings-Fisher. Is known by a white Ring about his Neck. 1783 J. Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds II. ii. 468 Russet Wheat Ear. 1829 E. Griffith et al. Cuvier's Animal Kingdom VIII. 81 Russet Pigeon. 1859 A. Pratt Brit. Grasses & Sedges VI. 34 Russet Sedge. Fertile spikelets ovate, obtuse, the lower one stalked. 1883 19th Cent. Aug. 302 The russet-starling seems possessed with an insatiable desire to kill insects. 1920 19th Cent. & After Aug. 289 On the cliff edge..a pair of russet wheatears nest every year. 1988 Bull. School Oriental & Afr. Stud. 51 306 The Turks believed each russet starling killed ninety-nine locusts before it consumed anything else. 2006 L. Nagy et al. in P. Shaw & D. Thompson Nature of Cairngorms xiv. 229/2 The plateau to the north has single, isolated populations of Russet Sedge and Mountain Bog-sedge. < as lemmas |
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