| 单词 | cock of the wood or woods |
| 释义 | > as lemmascock of the wood or woods (b) cock of the wood or woods: the capercaillie, Tetrao urogallus. [Perhaps after Irish coileach feá, †coileach feadha, lit. ‘cock of the wood’, formerly denoting the capercaillie, now usually the woodcock (Early Irish cailech feda capercaillie).] ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > family Tetraonidae (grouse) > [noun] > member of genus Tetrao (capercailye) capercailliec1540 cock of the wood or woods1610 mountain cock1659 wood-pheasant1705 wood-partridge1772 wood-grouse1776 caper1902 1610 W. Folkingham Feudigraphia iii. iii. 83 The Crane, Storke, Cocke of the Wood, Wood-Cocke, Heath-Cocke, Heath-Poote, Grouse, Turtill. 1772 J. R. Forster Hudson's Bay Birds in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 62 395 The great cock of the wood is as big as a turkey. 1807 Sir W. Bowles in Lett. 1st Earl Malmesbury (1870) II. 34 To shoot any Cocks of the wood..of which we hear such famous accounts here. a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) I. xx. 640 At the breeding season in spring the cock of the woods is very lusty. 2012 T. C. Smout in T. M. Devine & J. Wormald Oxf. Handbk. Mod. Sc. Hist. i. i. 25 The capercaillie, the ‘cock of the woods’ of the pine forests, survived until around 1780. < as lemmas |
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