单词 | broadbilled |
释义 | > as lemmasbroad-billed Furnished with a bill; having a beak, spike, etc. (Usually in compounds, as long-billed, broad-billed, soft-billed, etc.) ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > parts of or bird defined by > [adjective] > having beak or bill billed1399 beaked1589 the world > animals > animal body > general parts > head and neck > [adjective] > having a snout > of the beak > having a beak billed1399 rostrous1651 rostrated1797 beak-bearing1830 rostriferous1852 beaked1869 1399 W. Langland Richard Redeles iii. 37 All billid breddis þat þe bough spareth. a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1960) xi. xiii. 20 The weil stelit and braid billit ax. 1583 D. Ingram in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (1589) iii. 560 A Flamingo..is bigger than a Goose, billed like a Shouell. 1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) xiii. 67 A long Billed Fowle. 1770 G. White Let. 1 Aug. in Nat. Hist. Selborne (1789) 83 Hard-billed birds subsist on seeds. 1847 W. B. Carpenter Zool.: Systematic Acct. I. §385 Dentirostres, or toothed-billed Birds, which are characterized by a notch or tooth near the extremity of the upper mandible. broad-billed broad-billed adj. having a broad bill; chiefly in the names of animals. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > parts of or bird defined by > [adjective] > having beak or bill > of particular shape long-billed1594 latirostrous1646 bill-twisteda1657 spoon-billed1668 hook-billed1695 slender-billed1769 thick-billed1770 bow-beaked1791 boat-billed1821 slender-beaked1824 tenuirostral1837 broad-billed1839 planirostrate1858 tenuirostrate1860 planirostral1890 the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Scolopacidae (snipes, etc.) > [adjective] > of the sandpiper broad-billed1839 a1668 Sir T. Browne Notes Certain Birds in Notes & Lett. Nat. Hist. Norfolk (1902) 14 The most remarkable are Anas platyrinchos [sic.] a remarkably broad bild duck. 1839 W. B. O. Peabody in Zool. & Bot. Surv. Mass.: Birds 367 The Broad billed Sandpiper..is very rare in the United States. 2018 Santa Barbara (Calif.) News-Press 7 Apr. a6/4 The prevalent species outside our front door was the broad-billed hummingbird. < as lemmas |
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