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. |