| 释义 |
seriema, çariama, cariama|sɛrɪˈiːmə, sæ-, kærɪˈɑːmə|
Also siriema.
[mod.L. seriema (A. de St. Hilaire, 1830), cariama (Brisson, 1760), a. Tupi siriema, sariama, çariama, explained by Ruiz de Montaya as = crested. The erroneous form cariama (without cedilla) comes down from Marcgrav, Hist. Nat. Brasil. 1648.]
A large long-legged crested bird, Cariama cristata, inhabiting parts of Brazil; the crested screamer.
1836Proc. Zool. Soc. 30 Though the Çariama, in its osseous structure, exhibits but little resemblance to the Birds of the Raptorial order. 1860Ibid. 334 A New Form of Grallatorial Bird nearly allied to the Cariama. 1869R. F. Burton Highl. Brazil II. 26 The Siriéma, that hunted the serpents from our path. 1870Proc. Zool. Soc. 666 Burmeister's Cariama. 1895Pop. Sci. Monthly XLVI. 770 The far-famed seriema (Dicholophus cristatus), a form that has puzzled the best of taxonomers since the middle of the seventeenth century. |