| 单词 | spur-heeled cuckoo |
| 释义 | > as lemmasspur-heeled cuckoo b. The family name of the Cuculidæ, of which the common cuckoo is the type; the various genera and species are known as crested cuckoo, lark-heeled cuckoo, spur-heeled cuckoo, etc.; also the tree cuckoo, and hook-billed cuckoos, and gregarious cuckoos, American types of the family.ground-cuckoo, pheasant cuckoo, yellow-billed cuckoo: see the first element. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Cuculiformes (cuckoos, etc.) > [noun] > family Cuculidae cuckoo1797 1797 P. Wakefield Mental Improv. (1801) I. 115 It is a species of cuckow. 1803 W. Bingley Animal Biogr. II. 294 The Cuckoo visits us early in the spring. 1837 Swainson in Penny Cycl. VIII. 207/1 I have no doubt that the great length of tail possessed by nearly all the cuckoos is given to them as a sort of balance. 1861 R. Swinhoe Narr. N. China Campaign 1860 16 You hear the soft notes of the striated cuckoo. < as lemmas |
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