单词 | crow-pheasant |
释义 | > as lemmascrow-pheasant crow-pheasant n. a large bird of India and China, Centropus sinensis. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Cuculiformes (cuckoos, etc.) > [noun] > family Cuculidae > member of genus Centropus (coucal) > miscellaneous members of vlei lourie1864 crow-pheasant1870 1870 Ibis 6 234 Among the bamboo-copses and gardens around Kiungchowfoo, and all other towns in Hainan, the Crow-Pheasant was abundant. 1878 P. Robinson In my Indian Garden 7 The crow pheasant stalks past with his chestnut wings drooping by his side. 1883 E. H. Aitken Tribes on my Frontier 155 That ungainly object the coucal, crow-pheasant, jungle-crow, or whatever else you like to call the miscellaneous thing. 1964 A. L. Thomson New Dict. Birds 171/2 C[entropus] sinensis, commonly known in India as the Crow-pheasant, is a large black bird with chestnut wings. < as lemmas |
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