| 单词 | wheel-bird |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswheel-bird wheel-bird n. a local name for the night-jar or goat-sucker, from its cry suggesting the noise of a spinning-wheel. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Caprimulgiformes (nightjars, etc.) > [noun] > family Caprimulgidae > member of genus Caprimulgus > caprimulgus europaeus (nightjar) goat-milker1611 goatsucker1611 nighthawk1611 nightjar1630 dor-hawk1668 churn-owl1674 fern-owl1678 goat owl1766 eve-jara1793 puckeridgea1793 moth-hunter1816 wheel-bird1817 jar-owl1832 nightchurr1837 night-swallow1840 eve-churr1861 wheeler1862 scissors-grinder1875 puck1878 spinner1885 1817 J. F. Stephens Shaw's Gen. Zool. X. i. 147 This species [European Goatsucker] makes a..noise, which has been compared to that of a large spinning wheel,..and has on that account been called the wheel bird. 1862 C. A. Johns Brit. Birds 625 Wheel-bird, or Wheeler, the Nightjar. < as lemmas |
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