| 单词 | eyestripe |
| 释义 | > as lemmaseyestripe eyestripe n. †(a) a scar over or injury to an animal's eye (obsolete rare); (b) a stripe of contrasting colour close to an animal's eye; esp. (Ornithology) a horizontal stripe in the plumage at the level of a bird's eye. ΚΠ 1717 Markham's Master-piece (ed. 19) Table of 2nd Bk. Eye Canker... Eye Stripe. 1811 G. Shaw Gen. Zool. VIII. i. 71 Greenish-blue Kingfisher, yellowish beneath, with black wing-coverts and black eye-stripe. 1895 Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Sentinel 1 Apr. 5/3 Dr. Sarah R. Munro has entered a large tiger cat... He is a very well marked specimen of his kind, having the eye stripes and king's necklace, so-called, well defined. 1938 Brit. Birds 31 380 It had a whitish eyestripe and the legs were dark grey. 2003 S. L. Hilty Birds of Venezuela (ed. 2) 148/2 Wrens. Troglodytes. Small, brownish, and plain, but eyestripe usually evident; short cocked tail. < as lemmas |
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