英语词汇“crown bird”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

crown bird n. now rare any of various birds with distinctive crests; spec. (a) a turaco (now historical); (b) U.S. the cedar waxwing, Bombycilla cedrorum (now historical); (c) a crowned pigeon (now historical); (d) a crowned crane. [With sense (a) compare Dutch kroonvogel (1704 in the passage translated in quot. 1705; later also in sense ‘crowned pigeon’: see crowned pigeon n. at crowned adj. Compounds 2).]

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1699 Post Man & Hist. Acct. 12 Apr. A Crown Bird, a Porcupine,..and a collection of all sorts of Rarities from the East and West Indies, are to be seen at the sign of the Fox over against Hosier-lane.

1705 tr. W. Bosman New Descr. Coast of Guinea xv. 266 We call them Crown birds [Du. kroonvogels], because some have a beautiful Blew, and others a Gold-coloured Crown or Tuft on their Heads.

?a1775 W. Bartram Trav. Georgia & Florida in Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. (1943) 33 166 The Crown bird garulus crestata appears here at times the whole Year.

1797 G. Staunton Authentic Acct. Embassy to China I. vii. 249 The most familiar bird about the house of the Embassador's host was the crown bird, as it was called at Batavia, which was not however the ardea pavonina of Linnæus, but the columba cristata, having nothing, except its crest, in common with the former.

1831 R. Jameson Wilson & Bonaparte's Amer. Ornithol. (rev. ed.) I. 270 In some parts of the country they [sc. ‘cedar birds’, Bombycilla] are called crown birds; in others cherry birds.

1888 A. Newton in Encycl. Brit. XXIII. 487/1 (note) Touracos were called ‘Crown-birds’ by the Europeans in West Africa.

1910 W. S. Sichel Mem. Emma, Lady Hamilton 420 Captain Langford brought back for her from Africa a crown-bird and a civet cat.

1913 Times 25 Aug. 11/5 Mr. T. H. Bonell has presented to the Zoological Gardens four examples of the West African crowned crane (Balearica pavonina)... The distinctive feature, indicated by the popular name ‘crown-bird’, is the presence on the head of a velvety cap almost black in colour, and decorated with a spreading crest of hair-like plumes.

1973 W. Soyinka Season of Anomy xii. 229 A few crown birds sought grass seeds among these, stepping delicately through like stick-insects on swamp surface.

单词	crown bird
释义	> as lemmas crown bird crown bird n. now rare any of various birds with distinctive crests; spec. (a) a turaco (now historical); (b) U.S. the cedar waxwing, Bombycilla cedrorum (now historical); (c) a crowned pigeon (now historical); (d) a crowned crane. [With sense (a) compare Dutch kroonvogel (1704 in the passage translated in quot. 1705; later also in sense ‘crowned pigeon’: see crowned pigeon n. at crowned adj. Compounds 2).] ΚΠ 1699 Post Man & Hist. Acct. 12 Apr. A Crown Bird, a Porcupine,..and a collection of all sorts of Rarities from the East and West Indies, are to be seen at the sign of the Fox over against Hosier-lane. 1705 tr. W. Bosman New Descr. Coast of Guinea xv. 266 We call them Crown birds [Du. kroonvogels], because some have a beautiful Blew, and others a Gold-coloured Crown or Tuft on their Heads. ?a1775 W. Bartram Trav. Georgia & Florida in Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. (1943) 33 166 The Crown bird garulus crestata appears here at times the whole Year. 1797 G. Staunton Authentic Acct. Embassy to China I. vii. 249 The most familiar bird about the house of the Embassador's host was the crown bird, as it was called at Batavia, which was not however the ardea pavonina of Linnæus, but the columba cristata, having nothing, except its crest, in common with the former. 1831 R. Jameson Wilson & Bonaparte's Amer. Ornithol. (rev. ed.) I. 270 In some parts of the country they [sc. ‘cedar birds’, Bombycilla] are called crown birds; in others cherry birds. 1888 A. Newton in Encycl. Brit. XXIII. 487/1 (note) Touracos were called ‘Crown-birds’ by the Europeans in West Africa. 1910 W. S. Sichel Mem. Emma, Lady Hamilton 420 Captain Langford brought back for her from Africa a crown-bird and a civet cat. 1913 Times 25 Aug. 11/5 Mr. T. H. Bonell has presented to the Zoological Gardens four examples of the West African crowned crane (Balearica pavonina)... The distinctive feature, indicated by the popular name ‘crown-bird’, is the presence on the head of a velvety cap almost black in colour, and decorated with a spreading crest of hair-like plumes. 1973 W. Soyinka Season of Anomy xii. 229 A few crown birds sought grass seeds among these, stepping delicately through like stick-insects on swamp surface. extracted from crownn. < as lemmas
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