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单词 mouse hawk
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mouse hawkn.

Brit. /ˈmaʊs hɔːk/, U.S. /ˈmaʊs ˌ(h)ɔk/, /ˈmaʊs ˌ(h)ɑk/
Forms: see mouse n. and hawk n.1
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: mouse n., hawk n.1
Etymology: < mouse n. + hawk n.1Compare Orkney Scots mousie hawk kestrel, recorded from the late 19th cent.
A bird of prey that catches mice; esp. (a) the short-eared owl, Asio flammeus (obsolete); (b) U.S. the hen harrier, Circus cyaneus; (c) U.S. the rough-legged buzzard, Buteo lagopus (rare).The Old English quots. perhaps refer to the buzzard, Buteo buteo, or the kestrel, Falco tinnunculus.Sense (c) is apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.
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the world > animals > birds > order Strigiformes or owl > [noun] > family Strigidae > genus Asio > asio flammeus (short-eared owl)
hawk-owl1747
short-eared owl1766
mouse hawk1772
woodcock owl1840
prairie owl1846
fern-owl1885
eOE Corpus Gloss. (1890) 109/2 Soricarius, mushabuc.
eOE Cleopatra Gloss. in J. J. Quinn Minor Lat.-Old Eng. Glossaries in MS Cotton Cleopatra A.III (Ph.D. diss., Stanford Univ.) (1956) 16 Suricaricis, mushafuc.
c1200 ( Latin-Old Eng. Gloss. (Bodl. 730) in Eng. Stud. (1981) 62 204/1 Suricarius, mushauoc.
1772 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 62 384 Strix..Brachyotos. The short-eared Owl... Mouse Hawk at Hudson's Bay.
1812 A. Wilson Amer. Ornithol. VI. 67 Marsh Hawk[s]..are usually known by the name of the Mouse Hawk along the sea coast of New Jersey.
1840 W. Macgillivray Hist. Brit. Birds (1846) 67 Asio Brachyotus... Mouse-hawk.
1890 Cent. Dict. Mouse-hawk, the rough-legged bustard [sic].
c1969 R. J. Longstreet Birds in Florida (ed. 4) 44 Mouse Hawk... Numerous in winter over marshes and meadows, fields, and prairies.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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