| 单词 | american robin |
| 释义 | > as lemmasAmerican robin 3. Chiefly North American. A large, migratory thrush, Turdus migratorius (family Turdidae), which has brick red underparts and a dark head, widespread and common in North America. Also more fully American robin. Also (with distinguishing word): any of several similar American thrushes.Earlier in robin redbreast (see robin redbreast n. 2a). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > family Muscicapidae (thrushes, etc.) > subfamily Turdinae > [noun] > genus Turdus (thrush) > turdus migratorius (American robin) red-bird1649 robin redbreast1696 robin1703 redbreast1772 red-breasted thrush1772 red thrush1827 1703 S. Sewall Diary 16 Mar. (1973) I. 483 The Robbins cheerfully utter their Notes this morn. 1750 J. Birket Voy. N. Amer. (1916) 13 They have..a bird like our field fare with a red brest which they call a Robin that sings delightfully. 1808 A. Wilson Amer. Ornithol. I. 37 The Robin is one of our earliest songsters. 1858 H. W. Longfellow Courtship Miles Standish iii. 3 Into the tranquil woods, where blue-birds and robins were building. 1888 G. H. Kingsley in Field 16 June 869/2 In America I shoot robins and find them thrushes. 1931 Times Lit. Suppl. 5 Nov. 859/3 A lovely little bird hardly as large as an American robin. 1966 Vancouver Province 19 Nov. 1/5 The robin had been sitting in a mountain ash tree in his front yard. 1987 Field Guide Birds N. Amer. (National Geographic Soc.) (ed. 2) 330 Rufous-backed Robin. Turdus rufopalliatus... Clay-colored Robin. Turdus grayi. 1992 J. Osborne Cardinal i. 19 Some songbirds occasionally sing from the ground. The American Robin is one of these. < as lemmas |
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