| 释义 |
† pulveratricious, a. Obs.|pʌlvərəˈtrɪʃəs|
[f. mod.L. pulverātrix, -trīc-em (see next) + -ious.]
Of, belonging to, or characteristic of birds that roll themselves in the dust.
1661Lovell Hist. Anim. & Min. Introd., Birds, which..are pulveratricious and wild; as the Peacock, japonian, and turky. 1678Ray Willughby's Ornith. iii. ii. 371 The colour of the feathers..comes near to that of pulveratricious birds. 1688R. Holme Armoury ii. 313/1 Pulveratricious [is] an earthly kind of colour, mouse-colour. Ibid., Pulveratriceous, covered with a dusty colour. |