单词 | picarini |
释义 | † picarinin. British regional. Obsolete. The avocet, Recurvirostra avosetta. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > [noun] > family Recurvirostridae > member of genus Recurvirostra (avocet) scooper1668 shoeing-horn1668 crooked-bill1705 cobbler's awl1759 picarini1770 yelper1770 avocet1771 scooping avocet1776 red-necked avocet1823 bluestocking1844 shoehorn1864 1770 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. (new ed.) IV. 69 Avosetta..are found..near Fossdyke Wash, in Lincolnshire, called there Yelpers, on account of their noise; and sometimes Picarinis. ?1787 W. F. Mavor New Dict. Nat. Hist. I. at Avosetta Carrying their necks and long legs quite extended, and making a shrill noise continually reiterated; for which reason the country people usually call them yelpers, and sometimes picarini. 1802 G. Montagu Ornithol. Dict. at Avocet—Scooping Provincial [names]. Butter-flip. Scooper. Yelper. Picarini. Crooked-bill. Cobler's-awl. 1802 G. Montagu Ornithol. Dict. Picarani, vide Avoset. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1770 |
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