单词 | oriole |
释义 | oriolen. 1. Any of various mainly tropical Old World songbirds of the genus Oriolus or the family Oriolidae, noted for the melodious song and brilliant plumage of the males; esp. the golden oriole, O. oriolus, a migratory, arboreal Eurasian oriole the male of which is yellow and black and the female mainly green. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > larger song birds > [noun] > family Oriolidae > genus Oriolus (oriole) oriole1776 1776 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. (ed. 4, quarto) II. App. 626 The Oriole..This beautiful bird is common in several parts of Europe. 1839 Penny Cycl. XV. 121/1 The genus Oriolus or true Oriole of the present day. 1863 W. F. Campbell & J. F. Campbell Life in Normandy I. 131 Another very pretty bird that is uncommon in England—I mean the oriole. 1894 A. Newton et al. Dict. Birds: Pt. III (at cited word) Another genus which has been referred to the Oriolidæ..is Sphecotheres, peculiar to the Australian Region, and distinguishable from the more normal Orioles by a bare space round the eye. 1944 A. Russell Bush Ways i. 15 The ventriloquial calls of the orioles rippling among the she-oaks. 1998 K. Desai Hullabaloo in Guava Orchard (1999) xvii. 154 Already she had cooked a pigeon and a sparrow, a woodpecker, a hoopoe, a magpie, a shrike, an oriole, a Himalayan nightingale, a parrot. 2. Any of various New World songbirds of the genus Icterus (family Icteridae), which resemble the Oriolidae in the bright plumage of the males.Baltimore, golden, northern, orchard oriole: see the first element. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > arboreal families > family Icteridae > [noun] > genus Icterus (oriole) starling1674 icterus1713 hanging bird1759 oriole1782 hangbird1789 hammock1853 1782 J. Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds I. ii. 417 Oriole... These birds are inhabitants of America, except in a few instances. 1792 M. Riddell Voy. Madeira 57 Two kinds of orioles..are found in Antigua. 1845 H. W. Longfellow To a Child 109 An oriole's pendent nest. 1894 R. B. Sharpe Hand-bk. Birds Great Brit. I. 27 The so-called ‘Orioles’ of America belonging to a totally different family of birds, viz., the Icteridæ. 1947 Sat. Rev. (U.S.) 10 May 12/1 The flash of an oriole going past the kitchen window. 2001 Birds (RSPB) Summer 88/3 Before the eruption..most of Montserrat's interior was the leafy home of the Montserrat oriole. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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