单词 | peck-right |
释义 | > as lemmaspeck-right peck-right n. Animal Behaviour the precedence which allows birds of a higher status to attack those of a lower status without retaliation (cf. pecking order n. 1). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > actions or bird defined by > [noun] > pecking order peck-right1931 1931 W. C. Allee Animal Aggregations xix. 344 Hens with this power [of pecking inferiors] are said to have the ‘peck-right’ over those submitting to the pecking. 1954 J. M. M. Fisher & R. M. Lockley Sea-birds vii. 170 There is [among gulls], as in domestic hens, a definite order of precedence, or peck-right. 1975 Evolution 29 601/2 A peck-right hierarchy exists. < as lemmas |
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