单词 | whewer |
释义 | whewern. dialect. The female wigeon, Mareca penelope. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Anseriformes (geese, etc.) > subfamily Merginae (duck) > [noun] > member of genus Anas (miscellaneous) > anas penelope (Eurasian widgeon) > female whewer1634 whistling widgeon1668 whew-duck1804 1634 Althorp MS in J. N. Simpkinson Washingtons (1860) p. xxiii Peckards 3—broadbills 5—whewers 2. 1668 W. Charleton Onomasticon Zoicon 100 Boscas, aliis Anas Fistularis..the Whewer, or Whistling Widgeon. 1674 in Corr. J. Ray (1848) 16 I have put up in a box..a Widgeon and a Whewer. 1734 E. Albin Nat. Hist. Birds II. 88. 1804 T. Bewick Hist. Brit. Birds II. 352 (heading) Wigeon. Whewer, Whim, or Pandled Whew. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1923; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < n.1634 |
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