| 释义 |
grey-hen|ˈgreɪhɛn|
The female of the Black Grouse (Tetrao tetrix), the heath-hen. (The male is called the blackcock.)
1427in Balfour's Practicks (1754) 542 Wyld foulis, sic as pertrikis, pluveris, black cockis, gray hennis. 1618Naworth Househ. Bks. (Surtees) 79, 2 gray hens. 1787G. White Selborne vi. (1789) 16 Within these last ten years one solitary grey hen was sprung by some beagles in beating for a hare. 1893Newton Dict. Birds 393 Tetrao tetrix—the Blackcock and Greyhen, as the sexes are with us respectively called. |