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单词 scaledrake
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scaledraken.

/ˈskeɪldreɪk/
Forms: Also 1500s–1600s skaildraik, skaildrake, 1800s skaledrake, skeldrake, skieldrake.
Etymology: The first element is of obscure origin: see sheldrake n. Compare dialect scale-, skell-duck, and skeel-, skeeling-goose.
= sheldrake n.
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the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Anseriformes (geese, etc.) > subfamily Merginae (duck) > [noun] > member of genus Tadorna (sheldrake)
sheldrakec1325
bergander1544
skeeling-goose1578
scaledrake1600
burranet1602
sheld-fowl?1606
burrow-duck1678
vulpanser1706
shelduck1707
mountain duck1711
sly-goose1776
Brahminy duck1813
paradise duck1813
red goose1848
stock annet1852
1600 Sc. Acts Jas. VI (1816) IV. 236/2 Ony..skeldraikis herroun butter, or ony sic kynd of foullis.
1659 Lady Alimony ii. ii. sig. B4 Who is she that looks like a mouted Scaledrake?
1813 G. Montagu Suppl. Ornithol. Dict. at Shieldrake Scaledrake.
1885 C. Swainson Provinc. Names Brit. Birds 153 Common Sheldrake (Tadorna cornuta)... Skeldrake or Scale drake (Orkney Isles).
1885 C. Swainson Provinc. Names Brit. Birds 188 Oyster catcher (Hæmatopus ostrilegus)... Skeldrake or Skieldrake (Orkney Isles).
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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