英语词汇“pacific black duck”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

black duck n. any of several ducks with predominantly dark brown or blackish plumage; esp. (a) (more fully American black duck) Anas rubripes of eastern North America, which has a pale head; (b) (more fully Pacific black duck) A. superciliosa of Australasia and Indonesia, which has a striped head.

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1625 S. Purchas Pilgrimes IV. x. vi. 1873 Numbers of seuerall sorts of Wild-fowle, as Wild-goose, Black-Duck, Woodcock, Herron, Pigeon.

1731 M. Catesby Nat. Hist. Carolina I. p. xxxvii/1 The Black Duck is considerably bigger than the common Wild Duck, and is esteemed preferable to it for the goodness of its flesh.

1829 A. Wilson Amer. Ornithol. III. 326 Anas perspicillata. Black, or Surf Duck... This Duck is peculiar to America, and altogether confined to the shores and bays of the sea.

1852 J. Macgillivray Narr. Voy. H.M.S. Rattlesnake I. 55 Anas superciliosa, the `black duck' of the colonists, the richest and best flavoured of the Australian water-fowl.

1867 W. B. Tegetmeier Poultry Bk. xxviii. 308 (heading) The Cayuga, or large American black duck.

1907 ‘N. Blanchan’ Birds Every Child should Know xvii. 269 In every slough where..black duck and pintails settle down to rest in the autumn, gunners wait concealed in the sedges.

1986 K. F. Walker in B. R. Davies & K. F. Walker Ecol. River Syst. xiii. 652 Pacific black duck and other ‘sedentary’ species frequent permanent swamps and waterways.

2001 Canoe & Kayak Mar. 71/1 Wings of common merganser, American black duck, and common goldeneye whir softly in passing.

单词	pacific black duck
释义	> as lemmas Pacific black duck black duck n. any of several ducks with predominantly dark brown or blackish plumage; esp. (a) (more fully American black duck) Anas rubripes of eastern North America, which has a pale head; (b) (more fully Pacific black duck) A. superciliosa of Australasia and Indonesia, which has a striped head. ΚΠ 1625 S. Purchas Pilgrimes IV. x. vi. 1873 Numbers of seuerall sorts of Wild-fowle, as Wild-goose, Black-Duck, Woodcock, Herron, Pigeon. 1731 M. Catesby Nat. Hist. Carolina I. p. xxxvii/1 The Black Duck is considerably bigger than the common Wild Duck, and is esteemed preferable to it for the goodness of its flesh. 1829 A. Wilson Amer. Ornithol. III. 326 Anas perspicillata. Black, or Surf Duck... This Duck is peculiar to America, and altogether confined to the shores and bays of the sea. 1852 J. Macgillivray Narr. Voy. H.M.S. Rattlesnake I. 55 Anas superciliosa, the `black duck' of the colonists, the richest and best flavoured of the Australian water-fowl. 1867 W. B. Tegetmeier Poultry Bk. xxviii. 308 (heading) The Cayuga, or large American black duck. 1907 ‘N. Blanchan’ Birds Every Child should Know xvii. 269 In every slough where..black duck and pintails settle down to rest in the autumn, gunners wait concealed in the sedges. 1986 K. F. Walker in B. R. Davies & K. F. Walker Ecol. River Syst. xiii. 652 Pacific black duck and other ‘sedentary’ species frequent permanent swamps and waterways. 2001 Canoe & Kayak Mar. 71/1 Wings of common merganser, American black duck, and common goldeneye whir softly in passing. extracted from blackadj.n. < as lemmas
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