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单词 icterus
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icterusn.

/ˈɪktərəs/
Etymology: Latin, < Greek ἴκτερος jaundice; also, a yellowish-green bird, by looking at which jaundiced persons were supposed to be cured.
1.
a. Pathology. The disease jaundice.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorders of blood > [noun] > jaundice
jaundice1303
yellow evila1387
aurigo1398
gulesought14..
yellow soughtc1400
green jaundice1547
yellow sickness1568
icterism1660
yellow plague1668
icterus1706
orange skin1822
cholaemia1866
leptospiral jaundice1924
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Icterus, the Jaundice.
1802 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 8 240 Irritation..acting upon the hepatic system, is..the cause of icterus.
1886 Lancet 15 May 947/2 [He] pointed out that diabetes was not a disease, but a symptom like icterus.
b. Botany. A disease of plants in which the leaves turn yellow.
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the world > plants > disease or injury > [noun] > characterized by part affected or appearance produced
jaundice1600
black rot1769
root rot1831
leaf blight1849
leaf curl1850
black heart1862
icterus1866
albication1877
footrot1883
curl-leaf1886
silver top1890
stem-sickness1890
sleeping disease1899
mosaic1900
leaf mosaic1902
scorch1906
blotch1909
little leaf1911
ringspot1913
crinkle1920
vein banding1928
1807 Edinb. Rev. 11 85 To the natural decay of the leaves in Autumn, he has given the name of Icterus.]
1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. Icterus, a name given to the yellow condition assumed by wheat and some other plants, under the influence of prolonged wet and cold... The golden hues of autumn belong clearly to another category.
2. Zoology. A genus of American passerine birds, formerly nearly coextensive with the modern family Icteridæ, now restricted to the American orioles or hangbirds, a typical species being the troopial or icteric oriole, I. vulgaris (see icteric adj. 2).
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the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > arboreal families > family Icteridae > [noun] > genus Icterus (oriole)
starling1674
icterus1713
hanging bird1759
oriole1782
hangbird1789
hammock1853
1713 W. Derham Physico-theol. iv. xiii. 232 The Nest of the Guira tangeima, the Icterus minor, and the Jupujuba, or whatever other Name the American Hang-Nests may be called by.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
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