| 单词 | meat-bird |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmeat-bird meat-bird n. North American regional the grey jay, Perisoreus canadensis, a long-tailed jay with dark grey upperparts and a whitish face. ΚΠ 1860 J. G. Cooper Zool. Rep. (U.S. War Dept.: Rep. Explor. Route to Pacific XII) ii. 216 It [sc. the Canada jay] seems to be well known in the country by the name of ‘meat bird’, as it will watch hunters and pick at the deer or other meat they hang in the woods. a1862 H. D. Thoreau Maine Woods (1864) 220 Three large slate-colored birds of the jay genus (Garrulus Canadensis), the Canada-jay, moose-bird, meat-bird, or what not, came flitting silently and by degrees toward me. 1927 E. H. Forbush Birds of Mass. II. 384 Canada Jay..grease-bird; meat-bird; camp robber; meat hawk. 1976 D. Blood Rocky Mountain Wildlife i. ii. 158 It has been aptly said that the gray jay has more names than a debt collector: whiskey jack, Canada jay, camp robber, moosebird, meat-bird, and so on. < as lemmas |
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