单词 | playing-passage |
释义 | > as lemmasplaying-passage ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > larger song birds > [noun] > family Ptilinorhynchidae (bower-bird) > bower of playing-house1589 run1841 playing-passage1845 bower1869 1845 C. Darwin Jrnl. (ed. 2) vii. 125 Mr. Gould,..informs me, that the natives, when they lose any hard object, search the playing passages, and he has known a tobacco-pipe thus recovered. 1871 C. Darwin Descent of Man I. i. ii. 63 The Bowerbirds..tastefully ornamenting their playing-passages with gaily-coloured objects. < as lemmas |
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