单词 | vulpanser |
释义 | vulpansern. Ornithology. The sheldrake ( Anas tadorna). Also attributive. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Anseriformes (geese, etc.) > subfamily Merginae (duck) > [noun] > member of genus Tadorna (sheldrake) sheldrakec1325 bergander1544 skeeling-goose1578 scaledrake1600 burranet1602 sheld-fowl?1606 burrow-duck1678 vulpanser1706 shelduck1707 mountain duck1711 sly-goose1776 Brahminy duck1813 paradise duck1813 red goose1848 stock annet1852 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Vulpanser, the Bergander, or Burrow-duck, a Bird of the kind of Geese. 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Vulpanser, in zoology, a name given by some authors to the shell-drake, or burrow-duck. 1839 W. C. Taylor Student's Man. Anc. Hist. (ed. 2) i. §2. 24 Wild and tame fowl abounded; the vulpanser goose of the Nile, bustards, partridges, quails, and widgeons, frequented the skirts of the desert, and the valley of the Nile. 1910 D. W. Thompson tr. Aristotle Hist. Animalium 559 Wind-eggs are laid by a number of birds: as for instance the common hen,..the goose and the vulpanser. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1920; most recently modified version published online September 2019). < n.1706 |
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