单词 | grackle |
释义 | gracklen. 1. A name applied to various birds originally included in the genus Gracula (see quot. 1893). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > arboreal families > family Icteridae > [noun] > miscellaneous types of blackbird1602 grackle1772 oropendola1860 yellowhead1868 thrush-blackbird1889 1772 J. Forster in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 62 400 The Gracula Quiscula, Linn. or shining Gracule. 1782 J. Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds I. ii. 455 Gracula religiosa Minor Grakle. 1782 J. Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds I. ii. 457 Gracula calva Bald Grakle. 1815 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. I. ix. 281 The purple Grackle is..useful in this respect [i.e. clearing houses of insects]. 1842 W. T. Brande Dict. Sci., Lit. & Art 522/1 The bird commonly called the mino grackle (Gracula religiosa of Linnæus). 1850 C. Lyell 2nd Visit U.S. (ed. 2) II. 150 The boat-tailed grackle (Quisqualus). 1865 H. B. Tristram Land of Israel ix. 209 My first specimen of the beautiful grakle (Amydrus tristrami). 1893 A. Newton Dict. Birds Grackle..a word..restricted to members of the Families Sturnidæ (starling) belonging to the Old World, and Icteridæ belonging to the New. Of the former those to which it has been most commonly applied are the species variously known as Mynas, Mainas and Minors of India..and especially the Gracula religiosa of Linnæus... In the New World the name Grackle has been applied to several species of the genera Scolecophagus and Quiscalus... The best known are the Rusty Grackle, S. ferrugineus..and Q. purpureus, the Purple Grackle or Crow-Blackbird. 1896 Westm. Gaz. 28 Oct. 6/3 The black-throated grackle-cock. 2. Angling. The name of an artificial fly. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > means of attracting fish > [noun] > artificial fly > types of moor flylOE drake-flya1450 dub-flya1450 dun cut1496 dun fly1496 louper1496 red fly1616 moorish fly1635 palmer1653 palmer fly1653 red hackle1653 red palmer1653 shell-fly1653 orange fly1662 blackfly1669 dun1676 dun hackle1676 hackle1676 mayfly1676 peacock fly1676 thorn-tree fly1676 turkey-fly1676 violet-fly1676 whirling dun1676 badger fly1681 greenfly1686 moorish brown1689 prime dun1696 sandfly1700 grey midge1724 whirling blue1747 dun drake?1758 death drake1766 hackle fly1786 badger1787 blue1787 brown-fly1787 camel-brown1787 spinner1787 midge1799 night-fly1799 thorn-fly1799 turkey1799 withy-fly1799 grayling fly1811 sun fly1820 cock-a-bondy1835 brown moth1837 bunting-lark fly1837 governor1837 water-hen hackle1837 Waterloo fly1837 coachman1839 soldier palmer1839 blue jay1843 red tag1850 canary1855 white-tip1856 spider1857 bumble1859 doctor1860 ibis1863 Jock Scott1866 eagle1867 highlander1867 jay1867 John Scott1867 judge1867 parson1867 priest1867 snow-fly1867 Jack Scott1874 Alexandra1875 silver doctor1875 Alexandra fly1882 grackle1894 grizzly queen1894 heckle-fly1897 Zulu1898 thunder and lightning1910 streamer1919 Devon1924 peacock1950 1894 Outing 24 227/1 Bass flies of proved merit include grackle, all the palmers, [etc.]. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < n.1772 |
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