| 单词 | swamp-angel |
| 释义 | > as lemmasswamp-angel swamp-angel n. U.S. a name for the hermit thrush and the wood thrush; also transferred or allusively. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > family Muscicapidae (thrushes, etc.) > subfamily Turdinae > [noun] > hylocichla mustelina (wood thrush) wood-thrush1791 wood-robin1808 swamp-angel1858 the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > family Muscicapidae (thrushes, etc.) > subfamily Turdinae > [noun] > catharus guttatus (hermit-thrush) > catharus guttatus (hermit-thrush) hermit-thrush1831 swamp-angel1858 1858 H. C. Kimball in Jrnl. Discourses V. 31/2 Angels who would thus visit you are swamp angels,—they are filthy. 1871 J. Burroughs Wake-robin 25 The wood-thrush..is quite a rare bird,..being found in the Middle and Eastern States,..only in the deepest and most remote forests, usually in damp and swampy localities. On this account the people in the Adirondack region call it the ‘Swamp Angel’. 1872 M. S. De Vere Americanisms 117 The Swamp Angel of General Gillmore, as his monster-gun in the swamps was ironically called. < as lemmas |
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