α. 1800s– scissor beak.
β. 1800s– scissors beak.
单词 | scissor beak |
释义 | scissor beakn.α. 1800s– scissor beak. β. 1800s– scissors beak. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > [noun] > member of genus Rhynchops > rhynchops nigra (black skimmer) cutwater1733 razorbill1791 shear-bill1793 shearwater1794 scissor beak1833 scissorbill1833 1833 C. Darwin Jrnl. 15 Oct. in Beagle Diary (1933) 188 I here saw a very extraordinary bird, the scissor-beak. 1838 E. L. Joseph Hist. Trinidad ix. 61 (table) Skimmer, or Scissors Beak,..Rhynchops, species doubtful. 1884 J. Colborne With Hicks Pasha in Soudan xxviii. 264 I find I omitted the extraordinary-looking scissor-beak (Rhynchops flavirostus) [sic]. 2. A malformation of a bird's bill in which the mandibles are crossed. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of birds > [noun] > disorders of poultry roup1551 squeck1577 gargil1614 roup1614 the gapes1799 garget1817 snifters1844 white comb1853 bumble foot1854 wry-tail1880 blackhead1894 bacillary white diarrhoea1909 limber-neck1910 (avian or fowl) leucosis complex1922 pullorum1929 perosis1931 fowl paralysis1932 scissor beak1934 blue comb1939 hexamitiasis1941 pullet disease1941 Marek's disease1947 new wheat disease1950 X disease1950 sour crop1951 fowl cholera- 1934 L. F. Payne & H. M. Scott Internat. Poultry Guide for Flock Select. 19 The following defects must be rejected from the breeding flock:... Any serious skeletal deformity, i. e., crooked back.., crooked leg, or scissor beak. 1947 W. P. Blount Dis. Poultry xxxii. 236 Diagnosis [of mandibular disease] is straightforward, but must be differentiated from ‘scissors-beak’, which is of congenital origin. 2009 M. S. Athan & D. Deter Guide to Senegal Parrot (ed. 2) i. 15/2 The birds can develop an overgrown, ‘crossed’ beak condition called ‘scissor beak’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1833 |
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