| 单词 | evening grosbeak |
| 释义 | > as lemmasevening grosbeak evening grosbeak n. a heavily-built, partly migratory finch of northern and western North America, Hesperiphona vespertina, having chiefly brown and yellow plumage with black and white wings. [Probably after scientific Latin Fringilla vespertina, lit. ‘evening finch’, former scientific name (W. Cooper 1825, in Ann. Lyceum Nat. Hist. N.-Y. 1, 220).] ΚΠ 1828 C. L. Bonaparte Amer. Ornithol. II. 76 The specimen of the Evening Grosbeak presented to the Lyceum of New-York by Mr. Schoolcraft, from which Mr. Cooper established the species, was thought until lately the only one in possession of civilized man. 1921 F. S. Mathews Field Bk. Wild Birds & their Music (rev. ed.) 276 The Evening Grosbeak is a boreal species whose winter visitations in the northerly States..are irregular. 2006 Vermont Life Autumn 13 The raucous red-winged blackbirds and evening grosbeaks disappear. < as lemmas |
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