| 单词 | common black hawk |
| 释义 | > as lemmascommon black hawk black hawk n. chiefly North American any of various American buzzards of the genera Buteo and Buteogallus with predominantly blackish plumage; esp. (a) the American rough-legged buzzard, Buteo lagopus sanctijohannis, of North America; (b) (more fully common black hawk) Buteogallus anthracinus, found from the southern United States to Central America.In quot. 1743 perhaps: a falcon. ΚΠ 1743 G. Edwards Nat. Hist. Birds I. 4 (heading) The Black Hawk or Falcon. ?a1775 W. Bartram Trav. Georgia & Florida in Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. (1943) 33 165/1 The Black Hawk is about the size of the Chicken Hawk, they are all over a dark slate colour appearing perfectly black. 1832 Dublin Penny Jrnl. 1 Sept. 78/1 But I cannot describe how beautiful their aerial evolutions were, if a black hawk appeared in their rear. 1872 E. Coues Key to N. Amer. Birds 549 American ‘Rough-legged Buzzard’ ‘Black Hawk’. 1970 R. M. de Schauensee Guide Birds S. Amer. 47/1 Common black hawk... Black, base of primaries white. 1994 R. Hendrickson Happy Trails 24 Black hawk, a dark-colored, red-tailed hawk (Buteo calurus) native to the West. The name is also given to the Mexican black hawk, Swainson's hawk and Harris's hawk. 2002 G. M. Eberhart Mysterious Creatures I. 49/2 The Common black-hawk (Buteogallus anthracinus) has a wingspan greater than 4 feet and is found in cottonwood groves in Arizona. < as lemmas |
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