单词 | bull-bat |
释义 | > as lemmasbull-bat bull-bat n. the American Goatsucker ( Caprimulgus americanus). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Caprimulgiformes (nightjars, etc.) > [noun] > family Caprimulgidae > member of genus Caprimulgus > caprimulgus carolinensis (Chuck-will's-widow) chuck-will's-widow1791 bull-bat1838 1838 P. H. Gosse Lett. from Alabama (1859) 62 The common people here generally call these birds by the name of bull-bats. 1851 M. Reid Scalp Hunters II. xv. 238 The voice of the bull-bat wails through the air. 1883 G. W. Bagby Old Virginia Gentleman in Macmillan's Mag. 48 134/1 The ‘bull-bats’ or night-hawks in the air above us. < as lemmas |
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