hoatzinn.

/həʊˈatsɪn/

Forms: Also hoactzin, hoazin.

Etymology: Said to be < a South American Indian language, ultimately derived from the ‘harsh grating hiss’, which is the voice of the bird. N.E.D. (1898) enters this under the double headword hoactzin, hoatzin and gives the pronunciations (hō^uˌæ·ktsin, hō^uˌæ·tsin) /həʊˈæktsɪn/, /həʊˈætsɪn/.

A remarkable bird, Opisthocomus hoazin, or O. cristatus, native of tropical America, considered to be the type and sole member of a group named by Huxley Heteromorphæ.

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1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia Isagoge sig. A6 Birds, which are..Exoticks, or outlandish, chiefely the American, and they are terrestriall; as..hoactzin..hoactli, heatototl.

1678 J. Ray tr. F. Willughby Ornithol. 389 Its use in Physic recommends the bird Hoactzin, that utters a sound like its name.

1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Hoactzin, a Bird of the Bigness of a Hen, which feeds chiefly on Serpents, and is thence call'd by our Sea-men, the Snake-eater of America.

1889 Athenæum 2 Mar. 284/2 Mr. Sclater exhibited specimens of the eggs and chicks of the hoatzin..from..British Guiana.

1893 Westm. Gaz. 27 Nov. 7/1 Dr. Bowdler Sharpe..mentioned the hoatzin or reptilian bird, which builds its nest just above the water line, near lakes and rivers; the chicks have little claws or hooks on the end of their unfledged wings, with which they can climb up out of the flood if it threatens the security of the nest.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	hoatzin
释义	hoatzinn. /həʊˈatsɪn/ Forms: Also hoactzin, hoazin. Etymology: Said to be < a South American Indian language, ultimately derived from the ‘harsh grating hiss’, which is the voice of the bird. N.E.D. (1898) enters this under the double headword hoactzin, hoatzin and gives the pronunciations (hō^uˌæ·ktsin, hō^uˌæ·tsin) /həʊˈæktsɪn/, /həʊˈætsɪn/. A remarkable bird, Opisthocomus hoazin, or O. cristatus, native of tropical America, considered to be the type and sole member of a group named by Huxley Heteromorphæ. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > [noun] > member of Opisthocomidae (hoatzin) hoatzin1661 stinking bird1862 stink-bird1869 1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia Isagoge sig. A6 Birds, which are..Exoticks, or outlandish, chiefely the American, and they are terrestriall; as..hoactzin..hoactli, heatototl. 1678 J. Ray tr. F. Willughby Ornithol. 389 Its use in Physic recommends the bird Hoactzin, that utters a sound like its name. 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Hoactzin, a Bird of the Bigness of a Hen, which feeds chiefly on Serpents, and is thence call'd by our Sea-men, the Snake-eater of America. 1889 Athenæum 2 Mar. 284/2 Mr. Sclater exhibited specimens of the eggs and chicks of the hoatzin..from..British Guiana. 1893 Westm. Gaz. 27 Nov. 7/1 Dr. Bowdler Sharpe..mentioned the hoatzin or reptilian bird, which builds its nest just above the water line, near lakes and rivers; the chicks have little claws or hooks on the end of their unfledged wings, with which they can climb up out of the flood if it threatens the security of the nest. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1661
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