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单词 gold-winged
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gold-wingedadj.

Brit. /ˌɡəʊldˈwɪŋd/, U.S. /ˌɡoʊldˈwɪŋd/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: gold n.1, winged adj.1
Etymology: < gold n.1 + winged adj.1 Compare slightly earlier golden-winged adj.
That has wings of gold, or of a golden colour.
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the world > animals > birds > parts of or bird defined by > [adjective] > having wings > of particular colour
gold-winged1605
red-winged1633
golden-winged1729
blue-winged1733
red-shouldered1785
black-winged1829
1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. ii. ii. 427 Gold-winged Morpheus.
1691 R. Midgley et al. tr. Plutarch Morals II. 97 And Cakes by Female Hands wrought artfully, Well steep'd i'th Liquor of the Gold-wing'd Bee.
1798 J. Jones Hobby Horses iv. 106 Soon the soft harmonic strains are heard, Of many a gold-wing'd, crimson-breasted bird.
1889 Edwardsville (Illinois) Intelligencer 4 Sept. Gold-winged moths flitted wantonly past.
1944 Amer. Jrnl. Nursing 44 180/1 Flight nurses of the Army Air Forces will wear a new gold-winged badge, similar to the flight surgeon's wings.
2001 Times (Nexis) 17 Nov. Above him spreads a stained glass window, where a gold-winged angel tells Mary Magdalene and her companions that Jesus has risen.

Compounds

gold-winged pigeon n. Obsolete and rare any of several Australian pigeons of the genus Phaps, which have iridescent wing patches that appear bronze or a greenish brown in dull light; a bronzewing pigeon.
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1790 J. White Jrnl. Voy. New S. Wales 18 Apr. 145 We were likewise able..to take one of the Gold-winged Pigeons.
1877 tr. J. Verne Voy. round World: Austral. xi. 118 Thousands of birds, the lories and greenfinches, and gold-winged pigeons, not to speak of the noisy paroquets.
gold-winged woodpecker n. now historical and rare the yellow-shafted flicker, Colaptes auratus auratus.Cf. goldenwing n. at golden adj. and n. Compounds 3a.
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1729 M. Catesby Nat. Hist. Carolina I. Pl. 18/1 The gold-winged wood-pecker... The beams of all the Wing-Feathers are of a bright gold-colour.
1831 A. Wilson Amer. Ornithol. I. 145 The tongue of the gold-winged woodpecker, like the others, is also supplied with a viscid fluid.
1946 W. J. Rupp Bird Names & Bird Lore among Pennsylvania Germans ii. in Proc. & Addr. (Pennsylvania German Soc.) ii. 34 ‘Cuculus auratus, the gold-winged woodpecker’, our common flicker, was a prominent species as Kalm saw it.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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