| 单词 | american ostrich |
| 释义 | > as lemmasAmerican ostrich 2. In full American ostrich, South American ostrich. Either of the rheas of South America (two species in the family Rheidae), which resemble an ostrich in appearance but are smaller. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > superorder Ratitae (flightless) > [noun] > rhea americana (rhea) ostrich1581 emu1774 rhea?1787 1581 T. Nicholas tr. A. de Zárate Discov. & Conquest Peru iii. ii. f. 47v In certaine places of Chili, were many Abstruses in the Plaines. 1678 J. Ray tr. F. Willughby Ornithol. 151 The American Ostrich..is frequent in the Capitania Captainship of Serigippo. 1740 Gentleman's Mag. Oct. 12/1 A good Quantity of dry'd Fowls, and among them a great number of Ostriches. 1813 E. Home Lect. Compar. Anat. (1814) I. 295 In the cassowaries, and American ostrich, the stones..which those birds swallow must, from their weight, force their way into the gizzard. 1839 C. Darwin in R. Fitzroy & C. Darwin Narr. Surv. Voy. H.M.S. Adventure & Beagle III. v. 105 The ostrich..although so fleet in its pace,..falls a prey,..to the Indian or Gaucho armed with the bolas. 1859 C. Darwin Origin of Species xi. 349 The plains near the Straits of Magellan are inhabited by one species of Rhea (American Ostrich). a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) I. xx 585 In the case of the emu and the South American ostrich or Rhea, the cock bird does all the brooding. 1985 C. M. Perrins & A. L. A. Middleton Encycl. Birds 21/3 Rheas are large flightless birds frequently called the South American ostrich. < as lemmas |
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