| 单词 | sunbittern |
| 释义 | > as lemmassunbittern sunbittern n. a Central and South American aquatic bird, Eurypyga helias (family Eurypygidae), having black, grey, and brown variegated plumage and large red, yellow, and black eyespots on its extended wings; also called peacock-bittern; = sunbird n. 2b. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Gruiformes > [noun] > eurypyga helias (sun-bittern) sunbird1800 sunbittern1861 1861 Proc. Zool. Soc. London 367 (table) Painted Sun-Bittern. Eurypyga helias. 1876 A. R. Wallace Geogr. Distrib. Animals II. 358 The Eurypygidæ, or Sun-bitterns, are small heron-like birds with beautifully-coloured wings, which frequent the muddy and wooded river-banks of tropical America. 1946 Sci. Monthly Dec. 453/2 When I saw those lovely wings painted with the image of the sun, I had no doubt that I had my first Sun-Bittern (Eurypyga helias) before me. 2015 Pittsburgh Post.-Gaz. (Nexis) 10 June (Sooner ed.) c7 A pair of sunbitterns has successfully nested at the National Aviary, hatching a single egg in a mud-and-leaf nest that they built on a low branch overhanging the water. < as lemmas |
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