单词 | hazel grouse |
释义 | hazel grousen. A small Eurasian woodland grouse, Tetrastes bonasia, which has grey, black, and white speckled plumage with brown on the wings and (in the males) a black throat and small crest.Also called hazel hen. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > family Tetraonidae (grouse) > [noun] > genus Bonasa > bonasa bonasia (hazel-grouse) hazel hen1661 gelinotte1777 hazel grouse1783 1783 J. Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds II. at Grouse Hazel Grouse. Haselhuhn. 1862 H. Medlock tr. F. C. L. Schoedler Treasury of Sci. 538 Under the section of grouse..we note..the black grouse (T[etrao] tetrix), and the hazel grouse [Ger. Haselhuhn] (T. bonasia). 1880 Cassell's Nat. Hist. IV. 141 The Hazel Grouse..does not come to England, but is found over Northern Europe and North Asia, and is a pretty bird with a fine crest. 1919 Geogr. Jrnl. 54 80 Hazel grouse and pheasants could be heard, though seldom seen, in the forest itself. 1990 N.Y. Times 19 Jan. c22 Hazel grouse,..served with a thick stock sauce touched with juniper essence. 2003 A. Bold in D. Badarch et al. Mongolia Today vii. 156 In winter, Hazel Grouse tend to concentrate in birch forests. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1783 |
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