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单词 colies
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coliesn.

/ˈkəʊlɪz/
Forms: A singular colie, coly, is rarely, if ever, used.
Etymology: < modern Latin generic name colius, < Greek κολιός a kind of woodpecker mentioned by Aristotle.
Ornithology.
With plural agreement. A book-name for the Colidæ, a family of African birds, known at the Cape of Good Hope as mouse-birds.
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1847 W. B. Carpenter Zool.: Systematic Acct. I. §391 Colidæ or Colies..African birds, which dwell in bushes and thickets, living in flocks, and feeding on fruits and buds.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
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