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单词 smew
释义 smew|smjuː|
[Origin and relation to smee uncertain.]
A saw-billed duck (Mergus or Mergellus albellus) belonging to the merganser group; the white nun. The female is known as the red-headed smew.
1674Dent in Ray's Lett. (1718) 21 A Pocker, a Smew, three Sheldins.1678Ray tr. Willughby's Ornith. 338. 1709 Phil. Trans. XXVI. 466 Mergus major cirratus, the Smew, or White Nun.1768Pennant Brit. Zool. II. 439 Red-headed Smew. The head is slightly crested, and of a rust colour.1785Latham Gen. Synop. Birds III. ii. 429 The Smew is seen in England only in winter.1838Audubon Ornith. IV. 350 The Smew is a bird of extremely rare occurrence in the United States.1891Nature 4 June 106/2 Last January a friend showed me a smew..shot on the Dee, near Chester.
attrib.1829Griffith tr. Cuvier VIII. 626 Smew Merganser, Mergus Albellus.
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