| 单词 | sawbill duck |
| 释义 | > as lemmassawbill duck a. The mergansers (also sawbill diver or sawbill duck). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Anseriformes (geese, etc.) > subfamily Merginae (duck) > [noun] > genus Mergus (merganser) merganser1668 sawbill1763 fisherman-diver1885 1763 tr. A. Le Page du Pratz Hist. Louisiana II. ii. ii. 235 We are disturbed in the night, by the hideous noise of the numberless water-fowls,..such as cranes, flamingo's, wild geese, herons, saw-bills, ducks, &c. 1833 W. F. Tolmie Jrnl. 1 Sept. (1963) 232 Saw the Sawbill Duck once or twice riding down on a log. 1835 W. F. Tolmie Jrnl. 12 June 311 Shot a sawbill with rifle at the upper end of lake. 1843 W. Yarrell Hist. Brit. Birds III. 293 This bird [Mergus merganser] like the Red-breasted Merganser, is also called Saw~bill and Jacksaw. 1849 Zoologist 7 2393 The red-breasted merganser [is] a saw-bill duck. 1856 F. O. Morris Hist. Brit. Birds V. 284 Goosander... Sawbill. Jack-saw. 1894 A. Newton et al. Dict. Birds: Pt. III iii. 814 Sawbill, a name commonly given to the Goosander and Merganser. 1973 Nature West Coast (Vancouver Nat. Hist. Soc.) 167 The ‘toothed’ bill, a necessity for holding slippery fish, has earned this bird [sc. the red-breasted merganser] the name ‘sawbill’. < as lemmas |
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