| 单词 | tick-bird |
| 释义 | > as lemmastick-bird tick-bird n. a bird which feeds on the ticks that infest large quadrupeds, as the African genus Buphaga (rhinoceros-bird) and the South American and West Indian Crotophaga ani. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > larger song birds > [noun] > family Sturnidae > genus Buphagus (ox-pecker) rhinoceros bird1822 beefeater1836 oxpecker1837 tick-bird1850 buffalo-bird1857 ox-biter1885 tick-eater1903 cow-picker1915 the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Cuculiformes (cuckoos, etc.) > [noun] > family Cuculidae > member of genus Crotophaga > crotophaga ani savannah bird1694 savannah blackbird1756 keel-bill1811 black witch1837 tick-bird1850 tick-eater1903 1850 T. E. Poole Life, Scenery & Customs Sierra Leone & Gambia II. xiv. 220 Perched upon these animals [sc. cattle], which did not seem in the least to mind them, were a species of birds called ‘Tick-birds’, from the circumstances of their feeding upon certain insects of that name, which they find in great numbers on these beasts. 1863 W. C. Baldwin Afr. Hunting ix. 389 I was much amused by watching the tick birds trying to alarm an old white rhinoceros, that we were approaching from under the wind. 1871 C. Kingsley At Last I. v. 169 The black ‘tick birds’ (Crotophaga Ani), a little larger than our English blackbird. 1896 R. S. S. Baden-Powell Matabele Campaign xviii. 133 Colenbrander..they have called the ‘tick-bird’—a bird which in this country always accompanies a bull, to relieve him of superfluous ticks. < as lemmas |
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