单词 | new forest |
释义 | New Forestn. 1. New Forest pony n. a breed of relatively large pony native to the New Forest. ΚΠ 1861 J. H. Walsh & I. J. Lupton Horse vii. 108 The New Forest Pony will shortly be as seldom met with as the red deer in that district, that is to say, running wild, for the whole forest is to be broken up into farms. 1899 Proc. Royal Soc. 65 251 Attempts were made to cross Welsh, Exmoor, New Forest, Norwegian, and Highland ponies with the zebra without success. 1949 Observer's Bk. Horses & Ponies 152 Today the New Forest Pony is allowed to roam at will over some 60,000 acres of forests in Hampshire. 1989 S. G. Hall & J. Clutton-Brock 200 Years Brit. Farm Livestock xix. 237 Dartmoor, Exmoor, and New Forest ponies are and always have been riding ponies, though capable of carrying a load when required. 2. New Forest Burnet n. (originally) a local subspecies of a widespread European burnet moth, Zygaena viciae ytenensis, formerly found in the New Forest but extinct since the 1920s; (now also) any subspecies of Z. viciae, esp. Z. viciae argyllensis, found only at one locality in Argyll, Scotland. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [noun] > family Zygaenidae > member of (burnet fly) > kinds of burnet-sphinx1870 New Forest Burnet1895 1895 R. C. de Crespigny & H. Hutchinson New Forest 274 Mr. Gerrard..chanced on five specimens of the scarce New Forest Burnet (Zygæna Milliloti) in a railway cutting. 1955 E. B. Ford Moths x. 144 Two extinct moths, the New Forest Burnet,..and the Speckled Beauty,..probably owe their destruction to their extreme localisation. 1984 B. Skinner Moths of Brit. Isles 4/2 New Forest Burnet... Discovered in 1963, this race is only known from a single site in western Argyllshire, where it inhabits a steep grassy slope by the sea. 1993 Guardian 5 Oct. ii. 19/5 The New Forest Burnet Moth (Zygaena viciae), maintains a precarious existence on a cliff-edge in a remote part of Argyllshire, fenced off to allow its food supply, meadow vetchling, to flourish. 3. New Forest disease n. infectious bovine keratoconjunctivitis, a disease affecting the eyes of cattle; cf. pink-eye n.1 3(a). ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of cattle > [noun] > other disorders of cattle murrainc1450 gall1577 gargyse1577 sprenges1577 wisp1577 closh1587 milting1587 moltlong1587 hammer1600 mallet1600 scurvy1604 wither1648 speed1704 nostril dropping1708 bladdera1722 heartsick1725 throstling1726 striking1776 feather-cling1799 hollow-horn1805 weed1811 blood striking1815 the slows1822 toad-bit1825 coast-fever1840 horn-distemper1843 rat's tail1847 whethering1847 milk fever1860 milt-sickness1867 pearl tumour1872 actinomycosis1877 pearl disease1877 rat-tail1880 lumpy jaw1891 niatism1895 cripple1897 rumenitis1897 Rhodesian fever1903 reticulitis1905 barbone1907 contagious abortion1910 trichomoniasis1915 shipping fever1932 New Forest disease1954 bovine spongiform encephalopathy1987 BSE1987 mad cow disease1988 East Coast fever2009 1954 Vet. Rec. 11 Sept. 522/2 (heading) Infectious kerato-conjunctivitis of cattle (New Forest disease). 1976 Field 18 Nov. 977/1 New Forest disease (a sort of conjunctivitis) spread a little in the dry conditions but on the whole stock seemed to adapt to the heat. 1994 Daily Mail (Nexis) 27 Aug. 44 Hoofstock or New Forest disease shows itself as a film which obscures the eye and old age often brings deterioration in vision with it. 4. New Forest cicada n. a European cicada, Cicadetta montana, which occurs in the New Forest and is the only cicada native to Britain. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order Hemiptera > suborder Homoptera > family Cicadidae cicada?a1475 cigala1484 bow-krickel1658 locust1709 harvest-fly1753 spit-insect1755 tettix1775 balm-cricket1783 cicala1821 tree-hopper1836 cicad1855 knife-grinder1859 scissors-grinder1875 jar-fly1880 squeaker1887 New Forest cicada1978 1895 R. C. de Crespigny & H. Hutchinson New Forest 277 In the year 1858 A Mr. Farren captured in the Forest a fly of the Cicada family... In 1881,..Mr. Tait, of Lyndhurst, was fortunate enough to find another.] 1978 Jrnl. Royal Soc. Arts 126 286/1 At the woodland edges and in some of the glades are two forest specialities, the New Forest cicada and the wild gladioli, neither of which occurs elsewhere in Britain. 1992 Nat. World Autumn 23/1 Britain has only one species, the endangered and protected New Forest cicada. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1861 |
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