| 单词 | spotted crake |
| 释义 | > as lemmasspotted crake 2. A name of birds of the family Rallidæ, esp. the corncrake n. (also bean crake) or landrail ( Crex pratensis); also the water crake or spotted crake ( Porzana maruetta). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Gruiformes > [noun] > family Rallidae (rail) > crex crex (corn-crake) raila1450 quail?a1500 corncrakea1525 daker-hen1552 craker1698 corn-craker1703 landrail1766 crake1793 rye-crake1807 grass-drake1826 corn-rail1830 meadow crake1833 meadow gallinule1843 a1525 (c1448) R. Holland Bk. Howlat (Asloan) l. 782 in F. J. Amours Sc. Allit. Poems (1897) 74 The Corn Crake [a1525 Asloan (Craigie 1925) cornecrake; 1568 Bannatyne corncraik], the pundar at hand. 1793 R. Burns Poems (ed. 2) II. 171 Mourn, clamouring craiks at close o' day. 1797 R. Beilby & T. Bewick Hist. Brit. Birds I. 313 The young Crakes run as soon as they have burst the shell. 1850 Ld. Tennyson In Memoriam xcix. 152 The brook shall..flood the haunts of hern and crake. 1863 Spring Lapl. 353 None of the rails or crakes appear to come so far north. 1879 R. Adamson Lays Leisure Hours 49 I hear, in gloamin grey The crake among the corn. spotted crake spotted crake n. a small migratory rail of marshes in Eurasia, Porzana porzana, which has brown and grey plumage with white spots on the flanks. ΚΠ 1824 J. F. Stephens Shaw's Gen. Zool. XII. i. 223 Spotted Crake. 1959 P. O'Brian Unknown Shore ii. 26 I believe it was a spotted crake. 2006 Bird Watching Aug. 112/2 A singing Spotted Crake at a private site was our first such record for over 100 years. < as lemmas |
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