单词 | gold-winged |
释义 | gold-wingedadj. That has wings of gold, or of a golden colour. ΘΚΠ 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. CompoundsΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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). < adj.1605 |
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