| 单词 | white-cheeked pintail |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswhite-cheeked pintail b. Any of various other birds having a pointed tail, esp. (a) = pin-tailed sandgrouse n. at pin-tailed adj. Compounds; (b) North American (more fully pintail chicken) = pin-tailed grouse n. (b) at pin-tailed adj. Compounds; (c) U.S. regional the ruddy duck, Oxyura jamaicensis; (d) (in full Bahama pintail, white-cheeked pintail) a brown duck of the Caribbean and northern South America, Anas bahamensis, in which the throat and sides of the head are white. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > family Tetraonidae (grouse) > [noun] > genus Tympanuchus > tympanuchus phasianellus (pintail) pheasant grouse1772 chicken1812 pintail1879 the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Columbiformes (pigeons, etc.) > [noun] > family Pteroclidae (sand-grouse) > other types pintail1879 1879 C. R. Conder Tent Work Palestine II. 99 We also saw large coveys of the sand-grouse or pintail. 1890 Cent. Dict. Pintail,..2. The ruddy duck, Erismatura rubida... 3. The sharp-tailed or pin-tailed grouse, Pediœcetes phasianellus, more fully called pintail chicken. 1894 Outing 24 385/2 We found the pin-tails more frequently on the sides of hills, about the coolies in the rolling prairie. 1917 T. G. Pearson Birds Amer. I. 152 Ruddy Duck... [Also called] Pintail. 1917 T. G. Pearson Birds Amer. II. 27 Sharp-tailed Grouse... [Also called] Pin-tail. 1930 W. M. Mann Wild Animals in & out of Zoo xx. 238 In addition to the birds mentioned there are..Bahama pintails, [etc.]. 1960 J. Bond Birds W. Indies 46 White-cheeked Pintail Anas bahamensis. 1994 Ontario out of Doors Sept. 94/1 (advt.) Hunt teal, wood duck, ringneck, Bahama pintail, [etc.]. < as lemmas |
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