| 单词 | helldiver |
| 释义 | > as lemmashelldiver helldiver n. U.S. any of various diving waterbirds; esp. a grebe or a diver (loon). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > [noun] > order Podicipediformes (grebes) > podiceps ruficollis (dabchick) dive-dapa1000 doppe13.. dumping1393 dippera1425 didapperc1440 dopperc1440 ducker?a1500 dabchickc1520 dive-dapper1559 arsefoot1598 loon1678 penny bird1823 helldiver1839 Tom Pudding1848 1839 W. Irving in Knickerbocker Mag. Oct. 344 He could live under water like that notable species of wild duck, commonly called the Hell-diver. 1859 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 2) Dipper, a small aquatic bird [sc. the horned grebe], common throughout the United States, also called the Water-witch and Hell-diver. 1916 Condor 18 100 The Cormorants—‘Hell Divers’, he called them—‘have caught onto it now,’ he explained; ‘there are more fish in the canals than along shore.’ 1940 E. T. Seton Trail of Artist-naturalist 89 I traced them to the pied-bill grebe, or little helldiver. 1962 T. A. Imhof Alabama Birds 59 They [sc. loons] usually prefer to escape danger by diving.., and this characteristic plus their ability to stay under water for a long period of time has earned them the name ‘hell-diver’. 1991 M. Kenyon Kleinberg i. iv. 37 At dusk, walking along the lake side (her dog runs the other way, chasing a helldiver between the decorative cannons), Elisabeth says, I don't want to. < as lemmas |
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