单词 | pipit |
释义 | pipitn. Any of several typically ground-dwelling songbirds with brown-streaked plumage, of the cosmopolitan genus Anthus or related genera (family Motacillidae).meadow, rock, sky, water-pipit: see the first element. See also Richard's pipit n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > non-arboreal (larks, etc.) > [noun] > family Motacillidae > genus Anthus pipit1745 1745 J. Piercy Nat. Hist. Irish Song Birds 47 They are not in Colour much unlike the Pippet, which we wrongfully in Ireland call a Tit Lark. 1750 C. Smith Antient & Present State Cork II. iv. vi. 333 Another species called the Pippit or Alauda minor, whose legs are yellow, and a smaller kind of lark, is a constant attendant to the cuckow. 1768 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. (new ed.) II. ii. 241 A species [of lark] taken in the neighborhood of London, called by the bird catchers a pippit. 1832 Hist. Berwickshire Naturalists' Club 1 No. 1. 18 The rock or shore pipit (Anthus aquaticus)... In size it exceeds..the common and the tree pipet (A. pratensis and arboreus). 1885 C. Swainson Provinc. Names Brit. Birds 45 Called Pipit from its short and feeble note. 1894 A. Newton et al. Dict. Birds: Pt. III (at cited word) Pipits, of which over 30 species have been described..occur in almost all parts of the world. 1944 A. Russell Bush Ways xiv. 69 The restless little ground lark, or pipit, is often an associate of the song larks. 1966 E. Palmer Plains of Camdeboo xii. 211 Many of the small veld birds are undistinguished in appearance, such as the familiar chat and the pipits. 1994 Economist 19 Nov. 41/3 Excited birdwatchers rushed to Landguard Point in Suffolk to catch the third sighting this century of Blyth's pipit. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1745 |
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