| 单词 | carrier bird |
| 释义 | > as lemmascarrier bird carrier bird n. chiefly poetic (a) a bird used to carry messages, esp. a carrier pigeon; †(b) a pelican (see quot. 1801) (obsolete rare). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Pelecaniformes > [noun] > member of family Pelecanidae (pelican) onocrotalusc1384 pelicana1398 shoveller1552 alcatras1555 onocrotal1609 carrier bird1728 the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Columbiformes (pigeons, etc.) > domestic pigeon > [noun] > carrier carrier1641 carrier pigeon1644 carrier bird1728 Antwerp1839 scandaroon1860 postman pigeon1901 1728 N. Zinzano Paradice Regain'd 53 My Carrier Birds with the like Swiftness move. 1801 R. Southey Thalaba I. v. 261 And journeying onward, blest the Carrier Bird. 1850 Ld. Tennyson In Memoriam xxv. 42 But this it was that made me move As light as carrier-birds in air. View more context for this quotation 2016 @Ambreen427 14 Aug. in twitter.com (accessed 4 Sept. 2020) I will contact you via text, call, facetime, facebook, twitter, skype, instagram, kik, fax, or carrier bird until I get my point across. < as lemmas |
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