单词 | black-necked |
释义 | black-neckedadj. In the names of birds and other animals: having a black neck. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > animal body > markings or colourings > [adjective] > having a black throat black-throated1758 black-necked1785 1785 J. Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds III. 438 Black-necked Swan... The plumage the same with the other Swan, except that the neck is of a velvet black. 1839 W. B. O. Peabody in Mass. Zool. & Bot. Surv., Rep. Ornith. 358 The Black Necked Stilt, Himantopus nigricollis. 1970 J. V. Marshall Walk to Hills of Dreamtime 152 The black-necked stork or policeman bird... A four-foot black-and-white bird with red legs. 2008 Independent 8 Feb. 43/3 Officials could not use insecticides because of restrictions imposed by the federal wildlife department to protect the rare black-necked crane. Compounds black-necked cobra n. [after scientific Latin Naja nigricollis (1843)] = black-necked spitting cobra n. ΚΠ 1897 H. H. Johnston Brit. Central Afr. ix. 362/1 Naja nigricollis; the Black-necked Cobra. 2000 Richmond (Va.) Times Disp. (Nexis) 21 Aug. b2 Take a peek at..some of the planet's most venomous snakes, from the black-necked cobra to the West African gaboon viper. black-necked grebe n. a small grebe that occurs on most continents, Podiceps nigricollis, having (in the breeding season) a black head and neck with yellow ear tufts; cf. eared grebe n. at eared adj.1 Compounds. ΚΠ 1831 R. Jameson Wilson & Bonaparte's Amer. Ornithol. (rev. ed.) IV. 360 Black-necked eared grebe. Podiceps nigricollis, Brehm.] 1863 C. R. Bree Hist. Birds Europe IV. 237/2 Black-necked Grebe, Gould. 1934 Discovery Oct. 294/2 There has been a marked increase in the nesting of the black-necked grebes in Britain and Ireland. 2006 Bird Watching Aug. 13 The Danube Delta is the breeding area for White-tailed and Short-toed Eagles, Black-necked and Red-necked Grebes, [etc.]. black-necked spitting cobra n. a dangerous African snake, Naja nigricollis (family Elapidae), which is noted for spraying its attackers in the face with venom; also called spitting cobra. ΚΠ 1916 Jrnl. E. Afr. & Uganda Nat. Hist. Soc. 5 119 I stood ready with my forked stick. Presently a black-necked spitting cobra..came gliding from the heap. 1930 W. M. Mann Wild Animals in & out of Zoo xxi. 269 We have had few cobras, only those we brought home from Tanganyika, the Egyptian species (Naja haie ), and the black-necked spitting cobra (Naja nigricollis ). 1995 D. A. Warrell in J. Meier & J. White Handbk. Clin. Toxicol. Animal Venoms & Poisons xxvi. 466 (caption) Anterior uveitis..in a patient who had venom spat into his eye by a black necked spitting cobra. black-necked swan n. the swan Cygnus melanocorypha, which breeds in southern South America and is white with a black head and neck and a red knob at the base of the bill. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Anseriformes (geese, etc.) > subfamily Cyginae (swans) > [noun] > member of genus Cygnus (miscellaneous) black-necked swan1785 Bewick's swan1830 1785Black-necked swan [see main sense]. 1871 C. Darwin Descent of Man II. xvi. 230 Piebald birds..for instance, the black-necked swan, certain terns, and the common magpie. 2003 Black Men Oct. 91/1 Of the seven species of swans in the world, all are pure white except for the South American black-necked swan and the Australian black swan. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1785 |
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