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单词 great snipe
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great snipe
great snipe n. (a) any of various relatively large snipe, sandpipers, or similar birds found in Barbados (obsolete rare); (b) a medium-sized migratory snipe, Gallinago media, which breeds in northern Eurasia.
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1750 G. Hughes Nat. Hist. Barbados iii. 79 The Great Snipe... There are several Species of Snipes, that come in the wet Seasons to this Island... I shall therefore reduce them into the large and small Sort.
1776 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. (ed. 4, octavo) II. 450 Great Snipe... This species is rarely found in England.
1886 Ld. Walsingham & R. Payne-Gallwey Shooting (Badminton Libr. of Sports & Pastimes) II. vi. 139 The Great Snipe breeds in Denmark, Holland, and Northern Germany, as well as in Sweden and..Russia.
a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) I. xx. 589 Birds of passage..like some of the sandpipers, the great snipe, and the little stint,..usually rest for a short time only in a country like Britain.
2012 Sunday Tel. (Nexis) 29 July 14 Researchers have monitored great snipes..migrating from Sweden to central Africa, covering distances of around 4,200 miles in three and half days.
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