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单词 knorhan
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knorhann.

Etymology: < Dutch knorhaan, < knorren to growl, snarl + haan cock.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈknorhan.
Obsolete.
A name of a South African species of bustard: = korhaan n.
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1731 G. Medley tr. P. Kolb Present State Cape Good-Hope II. 139 The Knor~han. Among the wild fowls at the Cape there is a sort of birds, a male of which the Europeans there call Knor-cock; a female they call Knor-hen.
1777 G. Forster Voy. round World I. 85 The Knorhan, which is..the African bustard.
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