单词 | white-rump |
释义 | > as lemmaswhite-rump white-rump n. any of various white-rumped birds, esp. (a) any of several similar female harriers ( Circus species) (cf. ringtail n. 1a) (now rare); (b) the wheatear Oenanthe oenanthe (now rare); (c) the white-rumped sandpiper, Calidris fuscicollis. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Scolopacidae (snipes, etc.) > [noun] > member of genus Limosa (godwit) > other types white-rump1795 marlin1831 the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > family Muscicapidae (thrushes, etc.) > subfamily Turdinae > [noun] > oenanthe oenanthe (wheatear) arlingc1000 clot-bird1544 smatch1544 steinchek1544 wheatear1591 whitetail1611 fallow-smiter1666 stone-check1668 stone-smatch1668 chucka1682 horse-match1736 stone-chatter1783 white-rump1795 snorter1802 clodhopper1834 stone-chacker1853 horse-masher1885 stone-clink1885 1795 T. Lord & Dr. Dupree Entire Syst. Ornithol. Pl. LXXXVIII The Ring Tailed Hawk, or White Rump. 1817 J. F. Stephens Shaw's Gen. Zool. X. 568 The White-rump has a very pretty song. 1888 G. Trumbull Names & Portraits Birds 209 Limosa hæmastica..[called] at West Barnstable, White-rump. 1915 Condor 17 102 The bird was taken..at an elevation about 1000 feet higher than that of the regular breeding range of the White-rump. 1989 R. S. Ridgely & G. Tudor Birds S. Amer. (2001) I. 55 Chilean Swallow is very similar [to the White-rumped Swallow]..but always seems to be truly blue above (never with the green sheen shown by many White-rumps). 2011 P. Dunne Arctic Autumn i. 12 When white-rumps and other shore birds arrive, they spread out. < as lemmas |
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