单词 | poouli |
释义 | po'oulin. A Hawaiian honeyeater, Melamprosops phaeosoma, which was already very rare when it was first discovered on the island of Maui in 1973. ΚΠ 1974 T. L. C. Casey & J. D. Jacobi Occ. Papers Bernice P. Bishop Mus. 24 219 The species apparently was not known to the ancient Hawaiians. Mrs. Mary Kawena Pukui, a leading authority on the Hawaiian language, suggested the common name of po'o uli, meaning ‘black-faced’ in Hawaiian. 1985 B. Campbell & E. Lack Dict. Birds 272/2 The recent discovery of the Poo-uli Melamprosops phaeosoma on Maui..brings the total number of described species to 23. 2001 Stud. Avian Biol. 22 144 Aims were to locate all remaining Po'ouli and other critically endangered forest birds. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1974 |
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