| 单词 | bateleur eagle |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbateleur eagle In full bateleur eagle: a short-tailed African and Arabian eagle, Terathopius (Helotarsus) ecaudatus. Cf. berghaan n., dassievanger n. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Falconiformes (falcons, etc.) > family Accipitridae (hawks, etc.) > [noun] > eagles > terathopius ecaudatus (bateleur) bateleur eagle1864 berghaan1867 dassievanger1867 mountebank eagle1890 1864 J. A. Grant Walk across Afr. 306 The largest birds were the Batteleur eagle and the Buceros. a1867 C. J. Andersson Notes Birds Damara Land (1872) 10 Helotarsus ecaudatus..Rufous-backed Bateleur eagle. 1895 R. Lydekker Royal Nat. Hist. IV. 211 The handsomely coloured bird known as the bateleur eagle..differs from the sea-eagles..by the extreme shortness of its tail. 1914 R. C. F. Maugham Wild Game in Zambezia 333 The bateleur eagle is easily identified as he soars aloft in the clear African sky. 1940 V. Pohl Bushveld Adventures xi. 233 A couple of bateleur eagles that were circling round a spot. 1955 K. A. Thompson Great House iii. 106 The trousered bateleurs. < as lemmas |
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