单词 | sheld-fowl |
释义 | > as lemmassheld-fowl sheld-fowl n. (also shield-fowl, shell-fowl) the sheldrake. ΘΚΠ 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 ?1606 M. Drayton Man in Moone in Poemes sig. H3v The hungry shell-fowle from whose rape doth flye Th'unnumbred sholes. 1674 J. Ray S. & E. Countrey Words in Coll. Eng. Words 76 Sheld..inde Shel~drake & sheld fowle, Suss. 1676 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 11 626 Cormorants, Brants, Shield-fowl. 1890 R. Borland Yarrow 119 Speckled schell-fowl hovering nigh. < as lemmas |
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