| 单词 | blue hen hawk |
| 释义 | > as lemmasblue hen hawk Any of several large hawks or buzzards; esp. the red-tailed hawk ( Buteo jamaicensis), the red-shouldered hawk ( B. lineatus), or (more fully blue hen hawk) the goshawk ( Accipiter gentilis) in its adult plumage. Cf. chickenhawk n. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Falconiformes (falcons, etc.) > family Accipitridae (hawks, etc.) > [noun] > genus Accipiter > accipiter atricapillus (hen-hawk) hen hawk1742 partridge hawk1772 goshawk1890 the world > animals > birds > order Falconiformes (falcons, etc.) > family Accipitridae (hawks, etc.) > [noun] > genus Buteo (buzzard) > buteo lineatus (red-shouldered hawk) hen hawk1742 winter falcon1785 red-shouldered buzzard?a1808 winter hawk1811 red-shouldered hawk1812 the world > animals > birds > order Falconiformes (falcons, etc.) > family Accipitridae (hawks, etc.) > [noun] > genus Buteo (buzzard) > buteo jamaicensis (red-tailed hawk) hen hawk1742 red-tailed hawk1805 redtail1812 red-tailed buzzard1832 rabbit-hawk1851 1742 J. Bartram Let. in Corr. (1992) 178 This..is certainly ye louse of A great hen hawk. 1792 W. Bartram Trav. N. & S. Carolina (new ed.) ii. x. 286 F[alco]. gallinarius; the hen hawk. 1806 M. Lewis Jrnl. 3 Mar. in Jrnls. Lewis & Clark Exped. (1990) VI. 375 I have observed..the hawk of an intermediate size with a long tail and blewish coloured wings remarkably swift in flight and very firce. Sometimes called in the U' States the hen hawk. 1854 H. D. Thoreau Walden 173 Or sometimes I watched a pair of hen-hawks circling high in the sky, alternately soaring and descending. 1864 A. Monro Hist., Geogr., & Statistics Brit. N. Amer. 139 This is the most troublesome hawk to the farmer; it is called blue hen hawk; it flies very fast. 1907 ‘N. Blanchan’ Birds Every Child should Know xv. 218 Both of these slandered ‘hen-hawks’ prefer to live in low, wet, wooded places with open meadows for hunting grounds near by. 1913 J. Muir in J. T. Price Tallgrass Prairie Reader (2014) 116 We discovered a hen-hawk's nest on the top of a tall oak. 2014 J. Sandrock & J. C. Prior Sci. Nomencl. Birds Upper Midwest 10 Goose hawk, blue hen-hawk, blue darter, partridge hawk. < as lemmas |
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