| 单词 | pharaoh's hen |
| 释义 | > as lemmasPharaoh's hen Pharaoh's hen n. [after French poule de Pharaon (1755 in the passage translated in quot. 1757), itself after Arabic dijajat Firʿawn] = Pharaoh's chicken n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Falconiformes (falcons, etc.) > family Accipitridae (hawks, etc.) > [noun] > vultures or a vulture > genus Neophron > species percnopterus (Egyptian vulture) ossifrage1572 geir-eagle1611 Pharaoh's hen1757 Maltese vulture1781 Pharaoh's chicken1799 neophron1833 scavenger-vulture1885 1757 P. Templeman tr. F. L. Norden Trav. Egypt & Nubia II. 185 I remarked that a great quantity of Pharaoh's hens followed the little camp of the cacheff. 1860 R. F. Burton in Jrnl. Royal Geogr. Soc. 1859 29 67 This indigen of Africa and Arabia..is called khángá by the people, and dijájat Firaun (Pharaoh's hen) by the Arabs of the Upper Nile. 1956 Rev. Eng. Stud. 7 397 The gier-eagle..is the Egyptian vulture or Pharaoh's hen. < as lemmas |
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