单词 | hemipod |
释义 | hemipodhemipoden. A member of the genus Hemipodius, or Turnix, of three-toed quail-like birds; a bush-quail, ortygan. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Gruiformes > [noun] > member of family Turnicidae > genus Turnix (button-quail) Turnix1819 quail1848 buttonquail1854 hemipod1862 bush-quail1893 1862 Trans. Zool. Soc. V. 149 Certain border-groups..the Sand-Grouse, the Hemipodes, and the Tinamous. 1886 Encycl. Brit. XX. 147 One species, T[urnix] sylvatica, inhabits Barbary and southern Spain, and under the name of Andalucian Hemipode has been included..among British Birds as a reputed straggler. 1893 A. Newton Dict. Birds Hemipode, a recognized English rendering of Temminck's generic name Hemipodius (1815)..for a small group of birds some of which Anglo-Indians often call ‘Bustard-Quails’ or ‘Button-Quails’. Derivatives hemiˈpodiine adj. allied to the Hemipodes. ΚΠ 1862 Trans. Zool. Soc. V. 189 The Galline, Columbine, or Hemipodiine types. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2018). < |
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