单词 | cue-owl |
释义 | cue-owln. A name applied to the Scops-owl ( Scops giu), common on the shores of the Mediterranean, and a summer visitant to Britain. [Howard Saunders Manual Brit. Birds (1888) 298 says ‘To my ear its cry is a clear metallic ringing ki-ou—whence the Italian names chiù, ciù.’] ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Strigiformes or owl > [noun] > family Strigidae > otus scops (scops owl) horn-owl1601 horn-coot1650 scops1706 cue-owl1855 1855 R. Browning Andrea del Sarto The Cue-owls speak the name we call them by. 1856 E. B. Browning Aurora Leigh viii. 324 The cue-owls from the cypresses Of the Poggio called. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.1855 |
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