英语词汇“common or european roller”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

a. A jay-like bird, Coracias garrulus (family Coraciidae), having mainly greenish-blue plumage with dark blue wings and a chestnut back, noted for its characteristic tumbling display flight and found from southern Europe to central Asia. More fully common or European roller. Formerly also †roller-bird.

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the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Coraciiformes (kingfisher, etc.) > [noun] > family Coraciidae > member of genus Coracias > coracias garrulus (roller)

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1678 J. Ray tr. F. Willughby Ornithol. 132 I am verily perswaded that this bird is no other than the Strasburgh Roller.

a1691 P. Skippon Acct. Journey Low-Countries in Churchill's Coll. Voy. (1732) VI. 459/1 We..kill'd a curious bird call'd Rollar Argentoratensis, of the bigness of a dove, and of a blue colour.]

1752 J. Hill Gen. Nat. Hist. III. 388 The Corvus, with a blood-red back, a green tail, and black wings, the Roller... I think it the most beautiful of all European birds.

1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth V. 242 The Roller..may be distinguished from all others by a sort of naked tubercles or warts near the eyes, which still farther contribute to encrease its beauty.

1809 G. Shaw Gen. Zool. VII. ii. 388 The common or European Roller is about the size of a Jay.

1855 C. Kingsley Glaucus 26 The blue and green Roller-birds, walking behind the plough.

1894 A. Newton et al. Dict. Birds: Pt. III 793 Roller, a very beautiful bird, so called from its way of occasionally rolling or turning over in its flight.

1940 H. F. Witherby et al. Handbk. Brit. Birds II. 272 Coloration easily distinguishes Roller from other British birds.

1958 E. T. Gilliard Living Birds of World 247/1 The European Roller..of Central Europe east to Kashmir and south in winter to South Africa is a 12-inch, jaylike bird.

2006 Bird Watching Aug. 13/2 White and Dalmatian Pelicans, Bee-eaters, Hoopoes, rollers, Golden Orioles and woodpeckers are plentiful on this part of the Black Sea coast.

单词	common or european roller
释义	> as lemmas common or European roller a. A jay-like bird, Coracias garrulus (family Coraciidae), having mainly greenish-blue plumage with dark blue wings and a chestnut back, noted for its characteristic tumbling display flight and found from southern Europe to central Asia. More fully common or European roller. Formerly also †roller-bird. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Coraciiformes (kingfisher, etc.) > [noun] > family Coraciidae roller1678 the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Coraciiformes (kingfisher, etc.) > [noun] > family Coraciidae > member of genus Coracias > coracias garrulus (roller) roller1678 blue jay1764 1678 J. Ray tr. F. Willughby Ornithol. 132 I am verily perswaded that this bird is no other than the Strasburgh Roller. a1691 P. Skippon Acct. Journey Low-Countries in Churchill's Coll. Voy. (1732) VI. 459/1 We..kill'd a curious bird call'd Rollar Argentoratensis, of the bigness of a dove, and of a blue colour.] 1752 J. Hill Gen. Nat. Hist. III. 388 The Corvus, with a blood-red back, a green tail, and black wings, the Roller... I think it the most beautiful of all European birds. 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth V. 242 The Roller..may be distinguished from all others by a sort of naked tubercles or warts near the eyes, which still farther contribute to encrease its beauty. 1809 G. Shaw Gen. Zool. VII. ii. 388 The common or European Roller is about the size of a Jay. 1855 C. Kingsley Glaucus 26 The blue and green Roller-birds, walking behind the plough. 1894 A. Newton et al. Dict. Birds: Pt. III 793 Roller, a very beautiful bird, so called from its way of occasionally rolling or turning over in its flight. 1940 H. F. Witherby et al. Handbk. Brit. Birds II. 272 Coloration easily distinguishes Roller from other British birds. 1958 E. T. Gilliard Living Birds of World 247/1 The European Roller..of Central Europe east to Kashmir and south in winter to South Africa is a 12-inch, jaylike bird. 2006 Bird Watching Aug. 13/2 White and Dalmatian Pelicans, Bee-eaters, Hoopoes, rollers, Golden Orioles and woodpeckers are plentiful on this part of the Black Sea coast. extracted from rollern.² < as lemmas
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