单词 | teal |
释义 | tealn. 1. a. A small freshwater fowl, Querquedula or Anas crecca, or other species of the genus, the smallest of the ducks, widely distributed in Europe, Asia, and America; also locally applied to other genera of the Anatidæ. Also as collective plural. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Anseriformes (geese, etc.) > subfamily Merginae (duck) > [noun] > member of genus Anas (miscellaneous) > anas crecca (teal) teal1314 Colman's birda1387 sarcellea1387 cercelle1387 greenwing1813 teal-duck1845 jay-teal1885 1314 in Wardrobe Acc. Edw. II 21 2 teles 3d. c1325 Gloss. W. de Bibbesw. in Wright Voc. 151 Turbe de cercels [gl. teles]. 14.. in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 563/45 Anacius, a tele. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 487/2 Tele, bryd, turcella, turbella. 1486 Bk. St. Albans d j I haue seen them made sum to sle the pie sum to sle the Tele vppon the Reuer. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 279/2 Teele a byrde, plignon. ?1533 G. Du Wes Introductorie for to lerne Frenche sig. Civ The teyle, le cercelle. 1538 T. Elyot Dict. Querquedula, a waterfowle callyd a teale. 1575 G. Turberville Bk. Faulconrie 191 Some water pashet or pitte where wyldefowle lye, as Teales or suche lyke. 1614 G. Markham Cheape & Good Husb. ii. 128 So you may nourish Teyles [1668 Teils], Widgens, Sheldrakes or greene Plouers. 1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia 183 Teales and Widgins... Commonly they are very fat and sweet of taste. 1773 G. White Let. 9 Nov. in Nat. Hist. Selborne (1789) 99 I saw young teals taken alive in the ponds of Wolmer-forest. 1873 G. C. Davies Mountain, Meadow & Mere ix. 70 A couple of teal came within shot. 1876 S. Smiles Life Sc. Naturalist xiii. 259 The Teal..and the Eider Duck, visited the loch in vast numbers. b. The flesh of this bird as food. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > fowls > [noun] > duck mallarda1425 teal?c1475 duck1774 canard1913 ?c1475 Sqr. lowe Degre 320 With deynty meates that were dere,..The tele, the ducke and the drake. 1620 T. Venner Via Recta iii. 65 Teale..excelleth all other water~fowle. 1735 Sheridan in J. Swift Let. to Mrs. Whiteway 8 Nov. His teal was spoiled in the roasting. c. A shade of dark greenish blue resembling the patches of this colour on the head and wings of the teal. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > blue or blueness > [noun] > greenish blue peacock colour1598 verditer1819 verdigris blue1832 robin's-egg blue1844 aquamarine1846 turquoise1853 verditer blue1857 bird's-egg blue1858 Alice1872 Nile blue1873 starch blue1875 cyan-blue1879 peacock1881 peacock blue1881 bird's egg1885 Gobelin blue1886 cyan1889 Nile1895 kingfisher1901 Alice blue1905 teal1923 aqua1936 teal blue1949 1923 Daily Mail 14 Feb. 10 (advt.) Jersey frocks... Colours: Teal, Purple and Champ. 1978 N.Y. Times 29 Mar. a 14 (advt.) Both in a delicious new shade of teal…we call it Prussian blue! 2. With distinctive premodifier, applied to various species of Querquedula and allied genera: as American or green-winged teal n. Q. carolinensis. Baikal or Japanese teal n. Q. (Eunetta) formosa. blue-winged teal n. of North and South America, Q. discors or cyanoptera. Brazilian teal n. Q. brasiliensis. Chilean Teal n. Q. flavirostris. cinnamon or redbreasted teal n. Q. cyanoptera. falcated teal n. Q. falcata, of China. cricket teal (see cricket n.1 Compounds). summer teal n. = cricket teal n. at cricket n.1 Compounds). garganey teal n. the garganey n., Q. circia. Chinese Teal n. the mandarin duck, Aix galericulata. goose teal n. see goose n. Compounds 2. saltwater or brown diving teal n. the rudder duck n. at rudder n. Compounds 1d (G. Trumbull Game Birds 1888). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Anseriformes (geese, etc.) > subfamily Merginae (duck) > [noun] > erismatura rubida (ruddy duck) pintail1674 saltwater or brown diving teal1678 ruddy goose1785 ruddy duck1800 dun diver1844 stick-tail1844 pin-tailed duck1851 ruddy1877 rudder duck1884 fool duck1888 hardhead1888 paddy1888 paddywhack1888 steel-head1888 hardhead1893 rudder bird1894 the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Anseriformes (geese, etc.) > subfamily Merginae (duck) > [noun] > member of genus Anas (miscellaneous) spirit1747 Baikal or Japanese teal1785 butter-back1791 parera1835 geelbek1867 the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Anseriformes (geese, etc.) > subfamily Merginae (duck) > [noun] > member of genus Anas (miscellaneous) > anas querquecula (garganey) garganey1668 summer teal1668 garganey teal1824 the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Anseriformes (geese, etc.) > subfamily Merginae (duck) > [noun] > member of genus Anas (miscellaneous) > anas discors (blue-wing) blue-wing1709 blue-winged teal1837 1678 J. Ray tr. F. Willughby Ornithol. 378 Of the Summer-Teal, called by Gesner Ana circia. 1754 M. Catesby & G. Edwards Nat. Hist. Carolina (rev. ed.) I. 99 The Blue-Wing Teal. 1785 T. Pennant Arctic Zool. II. ii. 569 American Teal. 1785 J. Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds III. ii. 557 Baikal Teal. 1824 J. F. Stephens Shaw's Gen. Zool. XII. xii. ii. 143 Garganey Teal. 1824 J. F. Stephens Shaw's Gen. Zool. XII. xii. ii. 153 Mexican Teal. 1837 Penny Cycl. IX. 181/2 The beautiful Anas (Boschas) formosa, Sw., or Baikal Teal of methodists. 1837 Penny Cycl. IX. 182/1 Such a species is actually the blue-winged Teal of North America. 1896 List Anim. Zool. Soc. 447 [Seven species named]. 1896 A. Newton et al. Dict. Birds: Pt. IV 949 In ordinary talk ‘Teal’ stands for any Duck-like bird of small size. 1896 A. Newton et al. Dict. Birds: Pt. IV 949 In the same loose sense the word is often applied to the two most beautiful of the Family Anatidæ, belonging to the genus Æx..—the Carolina or Wood-Duck of North America, Æ. sponsa.., and the Mandarin-Duck of China, Æ. galericulata. Compounds C1. attributive and in other combinations, as teal-catcher, teal-duck, teal-flapper (flapper n.1 3), teal-shooting, teal-springing. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Anseriformes (geese, etc.) > subfamily Merginae (duck) > [noun] > member of genus Anas (miscellaneous) > anas crecca (teal) teal1314 Colman's birda1387 sarcellea1387 cercelle1387 greenwing1813 teal-duck1845 jay-teal1885 the world > food and drink > hunting > shooting > [noun] > shooting other birds ducking1589 pouting1672 partridging1682 cocking1686 teal-shooting1874 sniping1875 the world > food and drink > hunting > fowling > fowler > [noun] > teal hunter teal-catcher1902 1668 Bp. J. Wilkins Ess. Real Char. ii. v. §4. 156 To the Teal-kind should be reduced that other fowl..called Gargane. 1845 New Statist. Acct. Scotl. XIV. 122 Teal-duck..are found here. 1874 J. W. Long Amer. Wild-fowl Shooting xv. 193 In no other branch of wild-fowling is a breech-loader of more advantage than in teal-shooting. 1888 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Robbery under Arms I. iii. 31 I was off the old pony and into the water like a teal flapper. 1902 T. W. Webber Forests Upper India xviii. 247 A..canoe..which belongs to the teal-catchers. C2. teal blue n. a shade of dark blue tinged with green (cf. sense 1c above). ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > blue or blueness > [noun] > greenish blue peacock colour1598 verditer1819 verdigris blue1832 robin's-egg blue1844 aquamarine1846 turquoise1853 verditer blue1857 bird's-egg blue1858 Alice1872 Nile blue1873 starch blue1875 cyan-blue1879 peacock1881 peacock blue1881 bird's egg1885 Gobelin blue1886 cyan1889 Nile1895 kingfisher1901 Alice blue1905 teal1923 aqua1936 teal blue1949 the world > matter > colour > named colours > blue or blueness > [adjective] > greenish blue turquoise1573 pavonaceous1688 aquamarine1846 verditer1857 robin's egg1871 peacock1873 starch blue1875 bird's-egg blue1878 Alice blue1905 kingfisher1930 teal blue1949 1949 Dict. Colours Interior Decoration (Brit. Colour Council) III. 26/2 Teal blue, a descriptive colour name from the plumage of the small freshwater duck. 1963 New Yorker 1 June 75 Sandwich-board sheaths in teal-blue linen are piped down the sides with double rows of lime. 1980 M. H. Clark Cradle will Fall iv. 24 Her teal-blue uniform. teal-house n. = tealery n. at Derivatives. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping birds > poultry-keeping > [noun] > enclosure for poultry > place for other poultry duckery1745 quail pit1773 quailery1843 tealery1890 teal-house1902 1902 T. W. Webber Forests Upper India xviii. 247 Most bungalows in Gorakhpur have a teal house..where teal are fattened. Derivatives ˈtealery n. a place in which teal are kept and fattened. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping birds > poultry-keeping > [noun] > enclosure for poultry > place for other poultry duckery1745 quail pit1773 quailery1843 tealery1890 teal-house1902 1890 Cornhill Mag. July 17 Here are..the cow-house, and the tealery, and the quailery. 1894 E. Braddon in Blackwood's Mag. Sept. 387/2 The teal..kept and fattened in a tealery. 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