| 单词 | cuckoo's mate |
| 释义 | > as lemmascuckoo's mate cuckoo's mate n. = cuckoo-maid n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Piciformes > [noun] > family Picidae > jynx torquilla (wryneck) wryneck1585 jynxa1657 yunx1694 barley-bird1766 long tongue1822 cuckoo's mate1831 snake-bird1831 pea-bird1838 writheneck1840 rinding-bird1849 weet-bird1863 mackerel bird1879 felling bird1883 turkey-bird1885 1802 G. Montagu Ornithol. Dict. at Wryneck Appearing at the same time with the Cuckow, it has been termed that bird's servant or attendant.] 1831 J. Rennie Montagu's Ornithol. Dict. (ed. 2) 123 Cuckoo's mate,—a name for the Wryneck. 1898 C. M. Yonge John Keble's Parishes xvi. 202 Wryneck..or Cuckoo's mate, squeaks all round the woods..just as the cuckoo comes. 1955 D. A. Bannerman Birds Brit. Isles IV. 119 The approximate dates of its [sc. the wryneck's] arrival in Britain, where it is commonly known as ‘the cuckoo's mate’, have already been given. < as lemmas |
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