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单词 pels fishing owl
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Pel's fishing owln.

Brit. /ˌpɛlz ˈfɪʃɪŋ aʊl/, U.S. /ˌpɛlz ˈfɪʃɪŋ ˌaʊl/
Forms: 1900s– Pell's fishing owl (irregular), 1900s– Pel's fishing owl.
Origin: From a proper name, combined with an English element. Etymons: proper name Pel , fishing owl at fishing adj. 1
Etymology: < the genitive of the name of Hendrik Severinus Pel (1818–76), Dutch colonial official on the Gold Coast (now Ghana), 1840–50, and zoological collector) + fishing owl at fishing adj. 1.The genitive of the name of H. S. Pel translates the scientific Latin specific name peli (see quot. 1899).
A large fishing owl, Scotopelia peli, with rufous plumage, darker in the upperparts and paler, with slight streaks, in the underparts, found in parts of sub-Saharan Africa.
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1899 Science 5 May 662/1 There had also been received an example of Pel's owl (Scotopelia peli).]
1953 D. A. Bannerman Birds West & Equatorial Afr. I. 548 (heading) Pell's fishing-owl... This fine owl is a large bird about 2 ft. in length with a considerable wing-spread.
1980 D. N. Johnson Proc. 4th Pan-Afr. Ornithol. Congr. 291 (title) A study of Pel's fishing owl Scotopelia peli Bonaparte 1850 in the ‘pan handle’ region of the Okavango Delta, Botswana.
1999 Independent 25 July 7 It was an eerie, spine-chilling scream that alerted us to our first sighting of a Pel's fishing-owl.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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