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单词 kitehawk
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kitehawk
kitehawk n. a bird of prey of the family Accipitridae and subfamilies Milvinae or Elaninae; (in later use) esp. (Australian) the black kite, Milvus migrans.
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?a1775 W. Bartram Trav. Georgia & Florida in Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. (1943) 33 165/2 There are besides these two beautifull species of Kite Hawks. The first is [t]he forked tailed hawk.
1849 Eliza Cook's Jrnl. 1 Dec. 73/1 A large kite-hawk, or ‘gled’, poising himself on his long wings, and rising in circles to look out for some rabbit or other, appeared seemingly from this very place.
1895 Museum 15 July 246/1 This species [sc. the Everglade kite] is, unlike most other Kite Hawks, very sociable in its habits.
1963 V. B. Cranley 27,000 Miles through Austral. 18 The kitehawks hovered in the heat over the well-pumps, waiting for some stray lamb.
2003 Courier Mail (Queensland) (Nexis) 5 Apr. m6 Explorers who barely escape the desert alive, then mourn for its blue skies and wheeling kitehawks.
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