| 单词 | passage bird |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspassage bird passage bird n. (a) = bird of passage n. at sense 1e(a); †(b) = passage hawk n. (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Falconiformes (falcons, etc.) > [noun] > family Falconidae > genus Falco (falcon) > caught during migration passage birda1762 passage hawk1828 the world > animals > birds > actions or bird defined by > [noun] > migration > migratory bird summer bird1575 passenger1579 bird of passage1717 refugee1764 migrant1768 migrater1770 migrator1836 wanderer1837 traveller1874 passage bird1878 passage migrant1932 a1762 Lady M. W. Montagu Bird of Passage in R. Dodsley Coll. Poems (1763) V. 278 Scarce his passion known, This Passage-Bird is flown To warmer air, and brighter climes. 1852 R. F. Burton Falconry in Valley of Indus iv. 41 Hawks..are of two kinds, the ‘eyess’ (or nyess), and the ‘passage-bird’. 1878 C. Stanford Symbols Christ (new ed.) v. 139 The passage bird is never lost. High over the waves of the Atlantic it strikes a right path to its home a thousand leagues away. 1992 Bird Watching Jan. 30/1 November was relatively quiet, with the best records involving passage birds, rather than long stayers. < as lemmas |
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