单词 | crown pigeon |
释义 | > as lemmascrown pigeon crown pigeon n. = crowned pigeon n. at crowned adj. Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Columbiformes (pigeons, etc.) > [noun] > family Columbidae > genus Goura crowned pigeon1779 crown pigeon1822 Goura1855 Victoria crowned pigeonc1882 ground-pigeon1885 1822 London Jrnl. Arts & Sci. 4 50 The Lions at Exeter Change; the Crown Pigeon from the East Indies.., and a few others, which we cannot enumerate, are deserving attention. 1855 J. Wilson Let. in J. Hamilton Mem. J. Wilson (1859) viii. 313 A gigantic foreign species called the Goura, or Crown pigeon. 1922 C. R. Aiken Millinery viii. 84 The gourah is a species of pigeon, living upon the ground and known as the crown-pigeon. 2011 E. J. Lewandowski Compl. Costume Dict. 123/2 Goura feather, dainty, short feather from crown pigeon. < as lemmas |
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