| 单词 | mountain pigeon |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmountain pigeon mountain pigeon n. (a) Caribbean the zenaida dove, Zenaida aurita (rare); (b) South African the pintado petrel, Daption capense (rare); (c) any of several fruit pigeons of the genus Gymnophaps, of New Guinea and neighbouring islands.Sense (b) is apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries. ΚΠ 1731 G. Medley tr. P. Kolb Present State Cape Good-Hope II. 158 Call'd at the Cape the Hill or Mount Pigeon.] 1880 in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) (1903) A. 200 476 Mountain pigeons and some other birds are commonly seen on the heights [of St Vincent]. 1906 N.E.D. at Pigeon sb. Cape, Hill, or Mountain pigeon, a small species of petrel, Procellaria or Daption capensis. 1985 Biotropica 17 317/2 The mountain pigeon Gymnophaps albertisii, a nomadic flocking species, contributed 71 percent of all observations. < as lemmas |
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