| 单词 | puffleg |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspuffleg puffleg n. any of various South American hummingbirds of the genera Eriocnemis and Haplophaedia, which are characterized by a prominent tuft of white down on each leg. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Apodiformes > [noun] > family Trochilidae (humming-bird) > unspecified and miscellaneous types of zumbador1758 sunbeam1769 black warrior1831 hermit-bird1837 Anna's hummingbird1839 jacobin1843 straight-tail1843 vervain hummingbird1847 wedge-bill1848 fiery topaz1854 sungem1856 wood-star1859 calliope1861 rainbow1861 sabre-wing1861 sawbill1861 swallowtail1861 sword-bill1861 thorn-bill1861 visor-bearer1861 warrior1861 wood-nymph1861 puffleg1869 calliope hummingbird1872 flame-bearer1882 shear-tail1885 plature1890 rainbow starfrontlet1966 1869 Appletons' Jrnl. 17 July 489/2 Several varieties of the humming-birds are remarkable for a tuft of pure white, downy feathers, which envelops each leg, and which has obtained for them the popular title of Puff-legs. 1874 J. G. Wood Out of Doors 318 The Copper-bellied Puff-leg... The ‘puffs’..look like refined swan's down. 1985 C. M. Perrins Encycl. Birds 259 Emeralds, pufflegs, sunangels and sunbeams are some of the many territorial hummingbirds. 2005 Bull. Brit. Ornithologists' Club 125 136 (title) A hummingbird species new to Peru: range extension for the Greenish Puffleg Haplophaedia aureliae. < as lemmas |
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