| 释义 |
‖ pullus|ˈpʊləs|
Pl. pulli.
[L., = young chick.]
A young bird during the stage before it is fully grown or able to fly.
1774G. White Let. 2 Sept. in Selborne (1789) i. xl. 100, I had been..comparing the tails of the male and female swallow, and this ere any young broods appeared; so that there was no danger of confounding the dams with their pulli. 1955R. Spencer in Brit. Birds XLVIII. 468 Pull. (pullus)—nestling or chick not yet flying. 1964A. L. Thomson New Dict. Birds 904/2 The bird is technically a ‘pullus’..until it is full-grown and flying. Ibid., After the pullus stage a bird is described as ‘juvenile’ while wearing its first plumage of true feathers. |