| 单词 | demoiselle crane |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdemoiselle crane 2. A small graceful migratory crane of central Eurasia, Anthropoides virgo, mainly pale grey with a black head and breast and white ear tufts. Also demoiselle crane. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Gruiformes > [noun] > family Gruidae (cranes) > genus Anthropoides > anthropoides virgo or demoiselle demoiselle1687 kulang1698 Numidian crane1767 buffoon-bird1774 1687 Philos. Trans. 1686–7 (Royal Soc.) 16 374 Six Demoiselles of Numidia, a Kind of Crane. 1753 ‘T. Broderick’ Lett. from Several Parts Europe & East II. cxiii. 242 The demoiselle that danced as it walked, for its position painted both these motions, attracted the pleased eye. 1836 C. F. Partington Brit. Cycl. Nat. Hist. II. 675/1 This species is generally styled the demoiselle crane, as is supposed from the comparative lightness and elegance of its form. 1866 R. D. Blackmore Cradock Nowell III. xi. 181 Cradock followed up that stream, and found quite a tidy little brook..edged with many a quaint bright bird, scissor-bills and avosets, demoiselles and flamingoes. 1910 Blackwood's Mag. Feb. 285/2 The kulan, too, or demoiselle cranes, are lovely birds..and are found in great numbers all up the river Jumna. 1993 Harper's Mag. June 51/2 We listened to the murmur of the river, and the wail of lapwings and the cry of crakes and the primordial wood-block rattle of the demoiselles. < as lemmas |
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