单词 | pluvialine |
释义 | pluvialineadj. Ornithology. Now rare. Of, relating to, or resembling a plover. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > [adjective] > of the plover pluvialine1863 plovery1932 1863 W. K. Parker in Proc. Zool. Soc. 513 Another very large group, both of genera and families, may also be called Pluvialine. 1872 E. Coues Key to N. Amer. Birds 239 The pluvialine and scolopacine birds form the bulk of the division. 1910 W. P. Pycraft Hist. Birds iii. 54 The Pratincoles..bear a superficial likeness to the Swallows on account of the length and shape of their wings; but a very cursory examination is sufficient to show their Pluvialine affinity. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1863 |
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