| 单词 | great blue |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgreat blue great blue n. North American the great blue heron, Ardea herodias (see blue heron n. b). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Ciconiiformes (storks, etc.) > [noun] > family Ardeidae (herons and bitterns) > genus Ardea (heron) > miscellaneous types of blue heron1565 white heron1575 blue heron1731 squacco1752 frog-catcher1782 purple heron1785 great blue1838 Goliath1860 1838 J. J. Audubon Ornithol. Biogr. IV. 604 We brought home with us forty-six of the large White Herons, and three of the great Blues. 1891 Oologist 8 205 At Smith's Island there is a large heronry of the Great Blues. 1947 R. Bedichek Adventures with Texas Naturalist xix. 249 Consider the neck of the largest heron, the great blue or, as the subspecies here is called, the Ward heron. 2006 Sci. Amer. (U.K. ed.) Feb. 82/1 Great blues occasionally catch two fish at the same time. < as lemmas |
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