单词 | knob-fronted |
释义 | > as lemmasknob-fronted knob-fronted adj. now historical (in the names of birds) having a knob on the front of the head, at the base of the bill. ΚΠ 1790 J. White Jrnl. Voy. New S. Wales 190 We this day shot a Knob-fronted Bee-eater... This is about the size of a blackbird. 1885 Encycl. Brit. XIX. 647/2 The Chinese, knob-fronted, or swan goose, Anser cygnoides. 1984 C. M. Finney To sail beyond Sunset iii. 48 White continued to add to his collection of birds, and in the following month he obtained specimens of a knob-fronted bee-eater. < as lemmas |
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