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单词 great blue heron
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great blue heron
b. North American. Either of two North American herons, the large Ardea herodias (also more fully great blue heron) and the small Egretta caerulea (also more fully little blue heron).
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blue heron1565
white heron1575
blue heron1731
squacco1752
frog-catcher1782
purple heron1785
great blue1838
Goliath1860
1731 M. Catesby Nat. Hist. Carolina I. 76 Ardea cœrulea, the blue Heron..These Birds are not numerous in Carolina, and are rarely seen but in the Spring of the Year.
1835 J. J. Audubon Birds Amer. III. 93 When wounded, the Great Blue Heron immediately prepares for defence, and woe to the man or dog who incautiously comes within reach of its powerful bill.
1893 B. Torrey Foot-path Way 198 Here let me say that the great blue heron is..a big bird.
1917 A. H. Spicer Songs Skokie 155 Wind o' the low lake where hides the blue hern.
1931 Good Housek. (U.S. ed.) Dec. 206/2 The Ward is the Southern form of the great blue heron.
1972 M. J. Ursin Life in & around Salt Marshes 75 (caption) A blue-gray heron patched with white is unmistakably an immature little blue heron approaching adulthood.
2007 Wall St. Jrnl. 26 Oct. a1/3 They [sc. mussels] are too tough for people to eat, but they make tasty snacks for blue herons.
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