| 单词 | crowned pigeon |
| 释义 | > as lemmascrowned pigeon crowned pigeon n. any of three very large pigeons of New Guinea having bluish plumage and a fanlike crest, and constituting the genus Goura. Also with distinguishing word.Victoria crowned pigeon: see the first element. [Compare Dutch kroonvogel (1760 or earlier in this sense; also used to denote the crowned crane: see crown bird n. at crown n. Compounds 3b).] 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 1764 G. Edwards Gleanings Nat. Hist. III. cxxviii. 269 (heading) The Great Crowned Indian Pigeon.] 1779 T. Forrest Voy. New Guinea 95 One of my crowned pigeons escaped. 1803 W. Bingley Animal Biogr. II. 414 The wings of the Crowned Pigeons are armed with an horny excrecsence [sic]. 1869 A. R. Wallace Malay Archipel. II. xxxix. 430 The magnificent crowned pigeons, now so well known in our aviaries. 1958 C. A. Naether Bk. of Pigeon (ed. 4) ix. 197 Crowned Pigeons of the family of Gouridae..are the giants of the whole pigeon world... First of all comes the Crowned Pigeon proper—Goura cristata. 2003 Nature 31 July 505/3 The additions to the Zoological Society's Gardens during the past week include..a Common Crowned Pigeon (Goura coronata ), a Sclater's Crowned Pigeon (Goura sclateri) from New Guinea, [etc.]. < as lemmas |
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