单词 | ornithologize |
释义 | ornithologizev. intransitive. To practise ornithology; to look for or study birds in the wild. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > zoology > study of specific types of animal > study specific types of animal [verb (intransitive)] > birds ornithologize1847 1847 S. F. Baird Let. 31 May in W. H. Dall Spencer Fullerton Baird (1915) iv. 167 I have pretty well finished ornithologizing this spring, and have done worse than ever. 1873 Amer. Naturalist 7 16 I strongly suspect that this bird has been mistaken by naturalists, who have ornithologized in this section, for the common American raven. 1993 Times (Nexis) 4 Sept. (Features section) Once, presumably, these ‘temple-haunting martlets’ built their ‘pendent bed and procreant cradle’ (as King Duncan, royally ornithologising, puts it in Macbeth) on cliff-faces. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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