单词 | lesser rhea |
释义 | > as lemmaslesser rhea Either of two flightless South American birds constituting the genus Rhea and family Rheidae, which are the smallest of the ostrich-like birds and have relatively large wings; (a) (more fully greater rhea, common rhea, or grey rhea) the greyish brown R. americana; (b) (more fully lesser rhea or Darwin's rhea) the smaller, brown R. pennata. Also (in form Rhea): the genus itself.Valid publication of the genus name: M.-J. Brisson Ornithologia (1760) I. 8. The lesser rhea is sometimes placed in a different genus, Pterocnemia. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > superorder Ratitae (flightless) > [noun] > rhea americana (rhea) ostrich1581 emu1774 rhea?1787 ?1787 W. F. Mavor New Dict. Nat. Hist. II Rhea, in the Linnean system, a species of the struthio, or ostrich; synonymous with the nhamdoguacu of the Brazilians. 1797 Encycl. Brit. XVIII. 38/2 According to the new classification of Dr. Latham, it [sc. the genus Struthio] forms, along with the dodo, cassuarius, and rhea, a separate order. 1860 P. H. Gosse Romance Nat. Hist. 201 The rheas, which are the representatives of the ostrich in South America, inhabit regions presenting many of the characteristics of the African plains. 1884 Longman's Mag. Jan. 293 The South American rheas have real wings with real feathers in them. 1901 Ibis Apr. 343 In Rhea we have represented the proto-carinate wing-type of to-day. a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) I. xx. 585 In the case of the emu and the South American ostrich or Rhea, the cock bird does all the brooding. 1966 R. Silverberg Forgotten by Time 97 Darwin saw a rhea on his Beagle voyage, and wrote that it ‘presented a very noble appearance’. 2005 Global Aug.–Sept. 48/3 Flocks of rhea, a kind of ungainly ostrich. < as lemmas |
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