单词 | zosterops |
释义 | zosteropsn. Ornithology. Any of the small birds of the genus so named, widely distributed chiefly in tropical and subtropical regions, and characterized by a ring of white feathers round the eye; a silver-eye or white-eye. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > arboreal families > [noun] > family Zosteropidae > genus Zosterops (white-eye) white-eye1837 zosterops1867 blight-bird1870 ringeye1871 wax-eye1874 greeny1890 1867 A. L. Adams Wanderings Naturalist India 71 That beautiful warbler the yellow zosterops, known by the white downy ring round the eye. 1909 Blackwood's Mag. Aug. 204/2 It is interesting to watch a Zosterops operating on a pear. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1867 |
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