单词 | cross-beak |
释义 | cross-beakn. = crossbill n.2 ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > arboreal families > family Fringillidae (finch) > [noun] > subfamily Carduelinae > genus Loxia (crossbill) sheld-apple1666 crossbilla1672 cross-beak1688 loxia1706 parrot crossbill1825 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 242/1 The Crosbeak is a thick and short Billed Bird. 1770 G. White Let. 8 Oct. in Nat. Hist. Selborne (1789) 134 Considerable flocks of cross-beaks (loxiæ curvirostræ). This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.1688 |
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