| 单词 | child bird |
| 释义 | > as lemmaschild bird child bird n. now rare (in South America) a penguin. [After American Spanish †paxaro niño (1646, in the passage translated in quot. 1703, or earlier; now pajaro niño).] ΚΠ 1703 tr. A. de Ovalle Hist. Relation Chile i. xix. 39/1 There is another Bird call'd the Child Bird [Sp. paxaro niño], because it looks like a Swadled Child, with its Arms at liberty;..perhaps they are the same call'd Pinguins. 1847 T. Ross tr. J. J. von Tschudi Trav. Peru i. iii. 36 The Peruvians call it Paxaro niño (the child bird). It is easily tamed, becomes very social, and follows its master like a dog. 1979 R. T. Peterson Penguins 156 These days in much of South America, as elsewhere, it has become unthinkable to kill or harm the pajaro nino, ‘child bird’. < as lemmas |
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