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单词 grackle
释义

gracklen.

/ˈɡrak(ə)l/
Forms: Also 1700s gracule, 1800s grakle.
Etymology: Anglicized form of the generic name Gracula, a modern Latin feminine corresponding to Latin grāculus jackdaw.
1. A name applied to various birds originally included in the genus Gracula (see quot. 1893).
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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.
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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).
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