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单词 shoveller duck
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shoveller duck
2. ‘From the latter half of the 17th century’ (Newton Dict. Birds 841) applied to the Spoonbill Duck, Spatula (or Rhynchaspis) clypeata, a bird with a broad shovel-like beak. Also shoveller duck.
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1674 J. Ray Coll. Eng. Words 96 The Shoveler: Anas platyrynchos, sive clypeata.
1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Shuffler, a Bird like, but not so big as a Duck, having a broader Bill.
1733 Philos. Trans. 1731–2 (Royal Soc.) 37 449 The Blue-wing'd Shoveler.
1766 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. ii. 155 The Shoveler..weighs twenty-two ounces.
1838 J. J. Audubon Ornithol. Biogr. IV. 241 Shoveller Duck. Anas clypeata, Linn.
1872 C. Darwin Origin of Species (ed. 6) vii. 184 The beak is thus very inferior as a sifter to that of the shoveller.
1878 Proc. U.S. National Mus. 1 446 Spatula clypeata (Linn.). Shoveller; Spoon-bill Duck.
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