单词 | black-winged |
释义 | black-wingedadj. 1. Having black wings. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > animal body > markings or colourings > [adjective] > having black wings black-winged1713 1566 T. Drant tr. Horace Medicinable Morall sig. F Blacke wyngde deathe encompasse me in rage [L. mors atris circumvolat alis]. a1616 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Love's Cure ii. ii, in Comedies & Trag. (1647) v. 132/1 I might hope To raise blood from you. But my black-wing'd fate Hovers aversely over that fond hope. 1642 A. Ross Mel Heliconium v. 126 Neither white-hair'd Boreas snows, Nor black-wing'd Auster ever blows. 1713 J. Floyer tr. Sibylline Oracles i. 12 Presently he [sc. Noah] sent forth another black winged Bird, and she..fled freely. 1749 R. Poole Jrnl. 18 June in Beneficent Bee 382/2 Almost an innumerable Number of Ants; which, when come to Maturity, turn to black-winged Flies. 1817 P. B. Shelley Laon & Cythna i. xxx. 16 Black winged demon forms. 1890 Poultry Monthly (Albany, N.Y.) Apr. 121/2 A. Joyce, 1st on black winged cock and hen, 2d on red winged cock, 1st on red winged hen. 1953 E. Sitwell Gardeners & Astronomers 41 Only her sisters, harpy winds, black-winged like flies. 1997 S. B. Morrow Names of Things 206 I see first one, then another large black-winged rust-bodied bird coming from the mountain. 2005 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 15 Sept. a19/4 So-called love bugs—black winged things that seem to exist only to procreate and commit suicide against car windows. 2. In the names of birds and other animals: having black wings (or fins). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > parts of or bird defined by > [adjective] > having wings > of particular colour gold-winged1605 red-winged1633 golden-winged1729 blue-winged1733 red-shouldered1785 black-winged1829 1829 E. Griffith et al. Cuvier's Animal Kingdom VII. 501 Black-winged Parrot. 1896 List Vertebrated Animals Gardens Zool. Soc. (ed. 9) 493–4 Black-winged Peafowl: Hab. Cochin China(?). 1907 ‘N. Blanchan’ Birds Every Child should Know vi. 86 The Scarlet Tanager. Called also: Black-winged Redbird. 1952 G. F. Hervey & J. Hems Freshwater Trop. Aquarium Fishes 128 (heading) The (Black-Winged) Flying-Characin/Hatchet-Fish. Native to the upper Orinoco and Amazon rivers. 1955 W. R. B. Oliver New Zealand Birds (ed. 2) 148 The Black-winged Petrel breeds on all the islands of the Kermadec group except French Rock. 1998 Biol. Conservation 86 141/2 Migrants which visit grasslands and savanna when wet after rains (e.g. Abdim's stork, blackwinged pratincole) were not included. Compounds black-winged kite n. [compare scientific Latin Elanus melanopterus (1817)] any of several small pale kites of the genus Elanus; now spec. E. caeruleus of Africa, tropical Asia, and south-west Europe; also called black-shouldered kite. E. caeruleus is sometimes regarded as including related forms from Australia and North America. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Falconiformes (falcons, etc.) > family Accipitridae (hawks, etc.) > [noun] > kites > elanus caeruleus black-winged kite1839 swallow-hawk1858 elanet1880 1839 Analyst 9 481 Black-winged Kite,—Elanus melanopterus. 1870 A. L. Adams Notes Naturalist Nile Valley & Malta 25 Likewise the little black-winged kite, which may be seen in numbers along the railway route from Alexandria to Cairo. 1930 Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 1929 81 578 Elanus caerulescens caeruleus (Desf.). Black-winged Kite... Bangkok. 1999 Birdwatch Apr. 62/6 Black-winged Kites at Dibba.., Khor Dubai..and Ras al Khaimah Airport..were the ninth, 10th and 11th records. black-winged stilt n. [compare scientific Latin Himantopus melanopterus (1820)] any of several slender, long-billed wading birds with black and white plumage and long, slender pink legs, now or formerly regarded as forms of the common stilt, Himantopus himantopus (family Recurvirostridae); spec. a bird of the typical form found in Eurasia and Africa.The five forms that are now usually regarded as subspecies of H. himantopus are sometimes treated as full species. ΚΠ 1824 J. F. Stephens Shaw's Gen. Zool. XII. i. 179 Black-winged Longshanks.] 1833 P. J. Selby Illustr. Brit. Ornithol. II. 247 Black-winged Stilt. Himantopus melanopterus, Meyer. 1961 D. A. Bannerman Birds Brit. Isles X. 281 Mr. Yeates does not appear to have witnessed..the curious courting actions of the black-winged stilt. 2008 Independent 31 May 25/1 A family of black-winged stilt chicks have hatched for the first time in Britain since 1987. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1566 |
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