dowitchern.

/ˈdaʊɪtʃə/

Etymology: Iroquois.

Any of several long-billed waders (genus Limnodromus) of North America, belonging to the family Scolopacidæ and resembling the sandpiper, esp. the red-breasted snipe ( Limnodromus griseus).

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the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Scolopacidae (snipes, etc.) > [noun] > limnodromus griseus (dowitcher)

grey snipe1756

red-breasted snipe?a1808

dowitcher1841

brown-back1844

1841 Spirit of Times 9 Jan. 529/3 The mellow attenuated trill of the soaring dowitcher.

1872 E. Coues Key to N. Amer. Birds 252 Brown-back. Dowitcher.

1888 J. A. Lees & W. J. Clutterbuck B.C. 1887: Ramble in Brit. Columbia xvii. 182 The long-billed dowitchers are very much like a large snipe, of a pale cinnamon colour.

1934 I. W. Hutchison North to Rime-ringed Sun xiii. 136 They had been shot..and were Dowitchers, a species of Arctic wildfowl.

1965 New Scientist 21 Oct. 163/3 Sandpiper-like American waders such as..the dowitchers..form a substantial proportion of the incomers.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online June 2018).

单词	dowitcher
释义	dowitchern. /ˈdaʊɪtʃə/ Etymology: Iroquois. Any of several long-billed waders (genus Limnodromus) of North America, belonging to the family Scolopacidæ and resembling the sandpiper, esp. the red-breasted snipe ( Limnodromus griseus). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Scolopacidae (snipes, etc.) > [noun] > limnodromus griseus (dowitcher) grey snipe1756 red-breasted snipe?a1808 dowitcher1841 brown-back1844 1841 Spirit of Times 9 Jan. 529/3 The mellow attenuated trill of the soaring dowitcher. 1872 E. Coues Key to N. Amer. Birds 252 Brown-back. Dowitcher. 1888 J. A. Lees & W. J. Clutterbuck B.C. 1887: Ramble in Brit. Columbia xvii. 182 The long-billed dowitchers are very much like a large snipe, of a pale cinnamon colour. 1934 I. W. Hutchison North to Rime-ringed Sun xiii. 136 They had been shot..and were Dowitchers, a species of Arctic wildfowl. 1965 New Scientist 21 Oct. 163/3 Sandpiper-like American waders such as..the dowitchers..form a substantial proportion of the incomers. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < n.1841
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