| 单词 | jacana | 
| 释义 | jacanan.  Any bird of the genus  Parra ( Jacana) or family  Parridæ ( Jacanidæ), consisting of grallatorial aquatic birds inhabiting the warmer regions of the world, having enormous straight claws, which enable them to walk on the floating leaves of aquatic plants. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > 			[noun]		 > member of family Jacanidae (jacana) jacana1753 lotus bird1839 surgeon1855 surgeon-bird1870 lily-trotter1920 1648    G. Marggraf Historiae Rerum Naturalium Brasiliae 190  				Iacana Brasiliensibus, gallina aquatica.]			 1753    Chambers's Cycl. Suppl.  				Jacana, the name of a Brasilian bird, a species of moor-hen. 1792    Buffon's Nat. Hist. Abridged 		(London ed.)	 II. 117  				The Jacana..is most common in South America. 1820    Neuwied Trav. Brazil iii. 25  				Large flocks appeared of Jassanas. 1888    R. Buchanan City of Dream  ix. 195  				And walking upon floating lotus leaves The red jacana screamed. 1895    C. Dixon in  Fortn. Rev. Apr. 652  				The Parridæ or jacanas, those curious long-toed birds that run over the floating vegetation of the marshes and swamps of the tropics. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022). <  | 
	
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