英语词汇“blight-bird”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

blight-bird n. Australian and New Zealand an early settlers' name for a bird belonging to the Australian genus Zosterops.

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1870 R. Taylor Maori & Eng. Dict. 17/2 Kanohimowhiti, or Tauhau, white eye or blight bird (Zosterops lateralis) was first observed July, 1856 in the South, and about Auckland.

1882 T. H. Potts Out in Open 130 The white-eye or blight-bird..clears away multitudes of small insect pests.

1888 Newton in Encycl. Brit. XXIV. 824/1 In 1856 it was noticed..as occurring in the South Island of New Zealand, when it became known..to the English settlers as the ‘Blight-bird’.

1965 Austral. Encycl. VIII. 129/2 Silvereyes..do much good by destroying scale-insects and other pests, and have thereby earned the name of blight-birds.

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释义	> as lemmas blight-bird blight-bird n. Australian and New Zealand an early settlers' name for a bird belonging to the Australian genus Zosterops. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > arboreal families > [noun] > family Zosteropidae > genus Zosterops (white-eye) white-eye1837 zosterops1867 blight-bird1870 ringeye1871 wax-eye1874 greeny1890 1870 R. Taylor Maori & Eng. Dict. 17/2 Kanohimowhiti, or Tauhau, white eye or blight bird (Zosterops lateralis) was first observed July, 1856 in the South, and about Auckland. 1882 T. H. Potts Out in Open 130 The white-eye or blight-bird..clears away multitudes of small insect pests. 1888 Newton in Encycl. Brit. XXIV. 824/1 In 1856 it was noticed..as occurring in the South Island of New Zealand, when it became known..to the English settlers as the ‘Blight-bird’. 1965 Austral. Encycl. VIII. 129/2 Silvereyes..do much good by destroying scale-insects and other pests, and have thereby earned the name of blight-birds. extracted from blightn. < as lemmas
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