| 单词 | frost bird |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfrost bird frost bird n. U.S. regional (north-eastern) (now rare) a plover (grey or golden). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > [noun] > family Charadriidae > genus Pluvialis > pluvialis dominica (American golden plover) green plover1550 whistling plover1668 golden plover1766 frost bird1803 greenback1843 prairie plover1851 prairie snipe1851 prairie pigeon1874 kolea1888 squealer1888 1803 S. Mitchill Let. 5 July in Med. Repository (1804) 2nd Hexade 2 123/2 Grey plover, or frost-bird. 1848 ‘F. Forester’ Field Sports U.S. & Brit. Provinces Amer. II. 58 The American Golden Plover..is better known to our gunners by the name of ‘Frost Bird’, so called from being more plentiful during the early frosts in autumn. 1907 W. C. Braislin in Abstr. Proc. Linn. Soc. N.Y. 35 64 The young of this species [sc. the Golden Plover] and the Black-bellied Plover, both called ‘Frost Birds’ on Long Island formerly occurred in great abundance. < as lemmas |
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