| 单词 | magpie diver |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmagpie diver magpie diver n. (a) the smew, Mergus albellus; (b) the goldeneye, Bucephala clangula; (c) the tufted duck, Aythya fuligula. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Anseriformes (geese, etc.) > subfamily Merginae (duck) > [noun] > genus Mergus (merganser) > mergus albellus (smew) smeath1622 nun1666 merganser1668 smee1668 smew1674 weasela1682 Easterling1772 magpie diver1796 vare-widgeon1813 1796 P. A. Nemnich Allgemeines Polyglotten-Lex. v. 820 Magpie diver, the smew. 1831 J. Rennie Montagu's Ornithol. Dict. (ed. 2) 315 Magpie diver, a name for the Smew. 1882 R. Payne-Gallwey Fowler in Ireland 107 Another local name [of the Goldeneye] is the ‘Magpie Diver’, a very descriptive one by reason of the black and white plumage of the adult male. 1950 A. W. Boyd Coward's Birds Brit. Isles (rev. ed.) 2nd Ser. 60 The black and white ‘Magpie-Diver’, as some sportsmen call it [sc. the tufted duck],..is not a difficult bird to tell. < as lemmas |
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