单词 | leadbeater |
释义 | leadbeatern.1 Used absol. and in the possessive to designate a pink Australian cockatoo, Kakatoe leadbeateri, named after him in 1831 by N. A. Vigors ( Phil. Mag. X. 55). In full, Leadbeater's cockatoo. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Psittaciformes (parrots, etc.) > [noun] > cockatoo > types of sulphur cockatoo1811 rose cockatoo1829 gang-gang1833 Leadbeater's cockatoo1848 galah1862 Major Mitchell1898 1848 J. Gould Birds Austral. V. 2 (heading) Leadbeater's Cockatoo. 1890 ‘Lyth’ Golden South xiv. 127 The birds are very beautiful—the Blue Mountain and Lowrie parrots,..lead-beater, and snow-white cockatoos. 1900 Daily News 10 Feb. 7/2 The foreign birds are many, and include Amazon and grey parrots, lead-beaters, rose cockatoos, [etc.]. 1973 A. H. Lendon Cayley's Austral. Parrots 89 Pink Cockatoo... Synonyms. Major Mitchell Cockatoo, Leadbeater's Cockatoo, [etc.]. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online June 2018). Leadbeatern.2 Leadbeater's possum n. Gymnobelideus leadbeateri, a very rare Australian opossum.Named after Leadbeater in 1867 by F. M'Coy ( Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist., 20 287). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Implacenta > subclass Marsupialia (marsupials) > [noun] > family Phalangeridae (phalanger) > other types of cuscus1775 vulpine opossum or phalanger1789 ring-tailed opossum1803 ringtail possum1825 ringtail1831 ringtail opossum1831 ursine phalanger1839 mongan1889 Leadbeater's possum1937 ring-tailed possum1941 1937 Discovery 18 364/1 The smaller gliding 'possums..whose ancestry is probably derived from the same stock as the extinct Leadbeater's 'Possum, feed on insects, nectar, fruit and sap. 1942 C. Barrett On Wallaby iii. 36 The rarest of all Australian animals—Leadbeater's possum. 1966 G. Durrell Two in Bush iv. 142 To the astonishment of incredulous naturalists, a tiny pocket of Leadbeater's Possum was discovered [in 1961] in the eucalyptus forest not far from Melbourne. 1968 Times 23 Jan. (Austral. Suppl.) p. xiii/3 Eric Wilkinson..saw something that made him stare in disbelief—clinging to the trunk of a wattle tree beside the road was a small, dainty animal which much resembled the Leadbeaters possum, presumed extinct. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online January 2018). < n.11848n.21937 |
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