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单词 jabiru
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jabirun.

Brit. /ˌdʒabᵻˈruː/, /ˈdʒabᵻruː/, U.S. /ˌ(d)ʒæbəˈru/, /ˈ(d)ʒæbəˈˌru/
Forms: Also jaburu, Australian jaberoo, jabiroo.
Etymology: < Tupi-Guarani jabirú; also called jabirú guaçú (guaçú or wassú ‘great’).
A large wading bird of tropical and subtropical America ( Mycteria americana), of the stork family. Also applied to the allied Xenorhynchus australis, X. indicus, and X. asiaticus (which is closely related to the tropical American Jabiru mycteria), and Ephippiorhynchus senegalensis, of the Old World.
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1648 G. Marggraf Historiae Rerum Naturalium Brasiliae 200 Iabiru Brasiliensibus, Belgis vulgo Negro.
1678 J. Ray tr. F. Willughby Ornithol. iii. iii. 276 Jabiru guacu [guaçú] of the Petiguares..I have eaten of it often.]
1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth V. 388 It will be proper to mention the Jabiru and the Jabiru Guacu, both natives of Brasil.
1796 J. G. Stedman Narr. Exped. Surinam II. 343 The crane, or jabiru, of Surinam, I can best compare to a stork.
1860 G. Bennett Gatherings of Naturalist in Austral. ix. 195 In October 1858 I succeeded in purchasing a fine living specimen of the New Holland Jabiru, or Gigantic Crane of the colonists (Mycteria Australis).
1896 A. Newton et al. Dict. Birds: Pt. IV (at cited word) Very nearly allied to Mycteria, and also commonly called Jabirus, are the birds of the genera Xenorhynchus and Ephippiorhynchus.
1911 A. Searcy By Flood & Field (1912) viii. 60 There were also Jaberoo, Spoonbill, Ibis and Spur-wing Plover.
1943 W. E. Harney Taboo 158 The jaberoo struts along its sands.
1946 I. L. Idriess In Crocodile Land xxxiii. 237 The call of the jabiru.
1952 Coast to Coast 1951–2 211 He had ridden up quietly, and the big, black-and-white, dark-blue-necked jabiroo, pacing slowly on its red-yellow legs at the further end of the lagoon, had not flown away.
1965 G. McInnes Road to Gundagai viii. 125 The brick walls dissolved into..polygonum swamps over which the long legged jabiroo flew creaking on its way.
1965 Austral. Encycl. V. 114/1 Sometimes the jabiru is quite solitary, hence perhaps the term ‘policeman-bird’, by which it is known in North Queensland.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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