单词 | knob-billed |
释义 | > as lemmasknob-billed knob-billed adj. (in the names of birds) having a knob at the base of the bill. ΚΠ 1840 T. M. Brewer Wilson's Amer. Ornithol. (rev. ed.) 744 (heading) Knob-billed Phaleris. 1893 R. Lydekker Royal Nat. Hist. IV. xx. 537 The knob-billed auk (S[imorhynchus] pusillus), taking its name from the presence in summer of a knob at the base of the beak which disappears in winter. 2001 Financial Times 27 Jan. (Weekend Suppl.) p. XVIII/4 But the antics of the less well known animals are equally entertaining—the baboons at dawn.., the waterside waddling of the bizarre knob-billed duck, [etc.]. < as lemmas |
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