单词 | orange-bellied |
释义 | orange-belliedadj. Having an orange belly. Used chiefly in the names of (frequently Australian) animals and birds, esp. orange-bellied parrot n. a rare parrot with a predominantly green back and wings, Neophema chrysogaster, which is native to western Tasmania but migrates to coastal areas of western Victoria in Australia (formerly called orange-bellied (grass-)parakeet). ΚΠ 1841 J. Gould Birds Austral. (1848) V. Pl. 39 (caption) Euphema aurantia... Orange-bellied Grass-Parrakeet. 1869 G. Krefft Snakes of Austral. 47 Orange-bellied brown snake. Pseudechis australis... The back and sides are of a bright copper color. 1885 S. H. Hammond & L. W. Mansfield Country Margins & Rambles Journalist 326 River trout... Beautiful yellow or orange-bellied fellows, of from one to three pounds in weight. 1913 J. Masefield Daffodil Fields 63 An orange-bellied turtle scooped the mud. 1955 C. Barrett Austral. Animal Bk. (ed. 2) xxxix. 286 The king brown snake (P[seudechis] australis), also called mulga snake, orange-bellied snake, and the Darwin brown snake, is a northern form. 1966 W. R. Eastman & A. C. Hunt Parrots Austral. 157 Orange-bellied parrot. 1997 New Scientist 29 Mar. 12/3 Conservationists..fear that accidents at the storage site could threaten the endangered orange-bellied parrot, Neophema chrysogaster. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1841 |
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