单词 | black stork |
释义 | > as lemmasblack stork black stork n. a partly migratory stork, Ciconia nigra, which has predominantly black plumage and a white belly, and breeds locally in the warmer parts of central and eastern Europe. ΚΠ 1575 G. Turberville Bk. Faulconrie 137 The flesh of a white Storke, and also of the blacke Storke, called (Saracinessa) is euill of nourishment, and hard to be endewed, and stinking. 1678 J. Ray tr. F. Willughby Ornithol. iii. ii. 286 The black Stork. Ciconia nigra. It is equal to the white Stork, or but little less than it. 1831 List Animals Gardens Zool. Soc. 1 July 35 Black storks are frequent in all the South-eastern parts of Europe, inhabiting marshes in these countries. 1907 E. Rhys Fairy Tales from Hans Christian Andersen (ed. 3) 176 They were about to fell a tree..on whose naked branches a black stork had built its nest. 2006 Bird Watching Aug. 113/4 The Whiskered Tern..was found by birders watching out for a Black Stork, which had flown south..earlier the same evening. < as lemmas |
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