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单词 field bird
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field bird
field bird n. a wild bird; esp. any bird that frequents, or nests in, fields or open countryside.
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?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) 30b (MED) Be þe flesh chosen of wilde or felde briddes.
1558 W. Bullein Govt. Healthe f. xxxvi Fleshe of capons or henes, phesantes and patriches, pigions, and turtill doues, black birdes, and small fielde birdes.
1639 J. Woodall Surgeons Mate (rev. ed.) 361 All field-Birds, which are used to be eaten, excepting those which live upon the Water, as the Swan, Goose, Duck, Plover, Wigion.
1771 M. Peters Winter Riches 210 Lay it under a veer and ridge fallow during the winter, which will expose the yet unvegetated seed if any, to the field birds.
1895 F. M. Chapman Handbk. Birds Eastern N. Amer. 171 It [sc. the curlew] is more of a field bird than either of the two preceding species and frequents the dry uplands.
1999 Daily Tel. 3 Feb. 13/4 An estimated 150,000 ortolans, tiny Eurasian field birds, are trapped every autumn as they pass through south-west France.
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