| 单词 | green heron |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgreen heron green heron n. a small heron of North and Central America, Butorides virescens, with a dark greenish back and wings and a chestnut neck.Formerly considered to be conspecific with the striated heron, B. striata, of the Old World. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Ciconiiformes (storks, etc.) > [noun] > family Ardeidae (herons and bitterns) > butorides virescens (green heron) crab-catcher1699 shitepoke1775 green heron1785 poke1791 crabier1825 fly-up-the-creek1857 1785 T. Pennant Arctic Zool. II. ii. 447 Green Heron... Ardea virescens. Lin. Syst. 238... Inhabits from New York to South Carolina. 1855 Knickerbocker 46 222 Night-herons, snowy-herons, green-herons, and little-herons construct their nests so closely together that four or five hundred of them may be counted upon twenty or thirty cedars. 1927 Wilson Bull. 39 81 This report has to do with some observations made in a Green Heron colony during the seasons of 1921 and 1922. 1998 N.Y. Times 5 Apr. 11/4 Winn infects the reader with her enthusiasm for life in the park: ‘A nest!’ (Green herons in the Ramble.) ‘It was a loon!’ (A Gavia immer at the Reservoir.) < as lemmas |
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