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单词 spoon-billed
释义 spoon-billed, a.
[Cf. prec.]
Having a spoon-shaped bill. Used in specific names (see quots.).
Also spoon-billed butterball, spoon-billed heron, spoon-billed teal or spoon-billed widgeon, etc.
1668Charleton Onomast. 99 Anas Platyrinchos Gesneri,..the spoon-bill'd Duck.1844Ann. Nat. Hist. XIII. 178 This curious bird (a spoon-billed Tringa) described by Dr. Pearson.1869Ibis V. 430 A full description of the spoon⁓billed Sandpiper.1886Newton in Encycl. Brit. XXI. 261/1 The marvellous Spoon-billed Sandpiper, Eurinorhynchus pygmæus, whose true home has still to be discovered.
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