| 单词 | butter bird |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbutter bird butter bird n. chiefly Caribbean (now rare) the bobolink, Dolichonyx oryzivorus, which was formerly used as food. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > arboreal families > family Icteridae > [noun] > genus Dolichonyx (bobolink) ortolan1666 ricebird1709 reed-bird1764 bobolink1774 rice bunting1781 butter bird1790 October bird1793 skunk blackbird1829 skunk bird1831 rice troupial1836 meadow-wink1884 1790 Short Journey in W. Indies II. 90 It is of the size of a large pigeon and as fat as a butter bird, but its flavour is peculiar. 1883 Standard 26 Dec. They [sc. bobolinks]..grow so fat that they receive the name of ‘butter birds’. 1956 M. Jeffrey-Smith Bird-watching in Jamaica 77 Not many would recognise the Bobolink of Canada..as our own Butter Bird or October Pink. 2014 W. Young Fascination of Birds vii. 19 Bobolinks used to be called butter birds by hunters who killed the fat birds for meat, especially in the Caribbean. < as lemmas |
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