单词 | half-snipe |
释义 | ˈhalf-snipen. The jack snipe or lesser snipe, Scolopax gallinula. Cf. double snipe n. at double adj.1 and adv. Compounds 1. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Scolopacidae (snipes, etc.) > [noun] > lymnocryptes minimus (jack snipe) snipe-knave1590 snyte-knave1611 judcock1621 jack snipe1664 gid1674 half-snipe1766 plover's page1771 Jack1824 plover's provider1892 1766 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. ii. 122 The French call them deux pour un, we the half snipe. 1862 C. A. Johns Brit. Birds 448. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2015). < n.1766 |
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