| 单词 | wall-creeper |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswall-creeper wall-creeper n. (see quot. 1888). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > arboreal families > [noun] > family Sittidae > genus Tichodroma (wall-creeper) wall-creeper1666 spider-catcher1668 1666 C. Merrett Pinax Rerum Naturalium Britannicarum 177 Picus murarius, the Creeper, or Wall-Creeper. 1678 J. Ray tr. F. Willughby Ornithol. ii. vi. 143 The Wall-creeper, or Spider catcher. Picus murarius... It is somewhat bigger than a House-Sparrow. 1764 G. Edwards Gleanings Nat. Hist. III. 284 The Wall-creeper. 1888 Newton in Encycl. Brit. XXIII. 534/2 Allied to the Tree-Creeper [Certhia]..is the genus Tichodroma, the single member of which is the Wall-Creeper (T. muraria) of the Alps and some other mountainous parts of Europe and Asia. < as lemmas |
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