| 单词 | cornish chough |
| 释义 | > as lemmasCornish chough 2. Now restricted to the Red-legged Crow ( Fregillus graculus), which frequents the sea-cliffs in many parts of Britain, being particularly abundant in Cornwall; whence distinguished as the Cornish chough.This may have been Shakespeare's ‘chough’ in Lear; the bird, now rare at Beachy Head, was abundant on all the Sussex cliffs a century ago, and may well have been common on the Kentish coast at an earlier date.— N.E.D. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > larger song birds > family Corvidae (crow) > [noun] > genus Pyrrhocorax > species graculus (chough) cowec1230 Cornish crow1552 chough1553 sea-crow1579 killigrew1668 sea-chough1672 Cornish jay1750 red-legged crow1776 red-legged chough1831 a. 1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear xx. 13 The crowes and choghes that wing the midway ayre. View more context for this quotation] b.1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Choquar, a Chough; or, Cornish Chough.1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica vi. x Some Chaughes came to have red legges and bils. View more context for this quotation?1841 Hist. Berwickshire Naturalists' Club 1 No. 9. 253 The red-legged chough (Fregilus graculus)..finds a congenial retreat.1858 F. W. Robertson Lect. 121 The flock of choughs, with their red beaks and legs.1553 J. Withals Shorte Dict. f. 5v/2 A cornishe chough, pyrrhocorax. 1602 R. Carew Surv. Cornwall i. f. 36 I meane not the common Daw, but one peculiar to Cornwall..termed a Cornish Chough: his bil is sharpe, long, and red, his legs of the same colour. 1738 Defoe's Tour Great Brit. (ed. 2) I. 360 That famous kind of Crows..known by the Name of the Cornish Chough. 1773 G. White Let. 9 Nov. in Nat. Hist. Selborne (1789) 97 Cornish choughs abound, and breed on Beachy-head and on all the cliffs of the Sussex coast. 1875 F. Buckland Note in White's Selborne 425 Numbers of Cornish choughs are sent yearly from Plymouth to London..The choughs are now very rare round Beachy Head. Cornish chough Cornish chough n. (see chough n. 2.) ΚΠ 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Cornyshe chowghe or crowe, Pyracorax. < as lemmas |
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