| 单词 | summer snipe |
| 释义 | > as lemmassummer snipe summer snipe n. now chiefly historical the common sandpiper, Actitis hypoleucos, which breeds in temperate and subtropical Europe and Asia, and migrates to Africa, southern Asia, and Australia in the winter; cf. winter snipe n. at winter n.1 Compounds 4. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Scolopacidae (snipes, etc.) > [noun] > member of genus Tringa > tringa hypoleucos (common sandpiper) sea-lark1602 sandpiper1674 sand laverock1694 sandy laverock1710 sand lark1771 summer snipe1794 shad-bird1879 fiddler1885 1794 T. Lord & Dr. Dupree Entire Syst. Ornithol. Pl. LXXXVII The Stints, or Summer Snipes, visit us in the Spring; and, like the Common Snipes, frequent small brooks or ponds, in pursuit of food. 1802 G. Montagu Ornithol. Dict. Sandpiper—Common... It is known in some places by the name of Summer Snipe. 1849 Fraser's Mag. July 9/1 The summer snipes flitted whistling up the shallow. 1985 Country Life 7 Nov. 1455 (caption) Summer snipe. Photographed on the moor in July, resting on a gate post close to his nest. 2014 Times (National ed.) (Nexis) 25 July 28 But it is only there for three months in the summer, and it was once known as the summer snipe. < as lemmas |
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