pullusn.

Brit.

/ˈpʊləs/, U.S.

/ˈpələs/

Inflections: Plural pulli.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin pullus.

Etymology: < classical Latin pullus young chick (see pull n.²). Compare earlier pull n.²

Chiefly Ornithology.

Originally: †a chick still within the egg (obsolete). In later use: a young bird, spec. one that is not yet able to fly (also as a modifier).Somewhat rare until the mid 20th cent., when it was readopted with reference to the age at which birds are ringed (banded) for ornithological study.

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birdOE

chicka1398

chickena1398

brancher?a1400

pulla1500

birdling1611

puler1611

pullus1653

squeaker1654

birdeen1829

chicklet1836

baby bird1841

chirpling1888

1653 W. Harvey Anat. Exercitations xxiii. 131 Yet it doth no way appear, that the Pullus doth by his cry signifie the necessity of his release from the Shell to his Mother.

1698 W. Cowper Anat. Humane Bodies Introd. sig. c^v/1 Before impregnation, no Vestigia of the Pullus could be found.

1702 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 23 1238 The Respiratory Motion..will in the Body of the Pullus be regular and circulatory.

1774 G. White Let. 2 Sept. in Nat. Hist. Selborne (1789) 100 I had been..comparing the tails of the male and female swallow, and this ere any young broods appeared; so that there was no danger of confounding the dams with their pulli.

1865 Proc. Royal Soc. 14 113 Dr. Bennett's beautiful Cassowaries, the ‘Mooruks’, have yielded two ripe pulli; these were both hatched alive at the Society's Gardens.

1948 Larus 2 7 The birds were caught as pulli or adults both in and out of the nest and were set free after banding.

1964 A. L. Thomson New Dict. Birds 904/2 After the pullus stage a bird is described as ‘juvenile’ while wearing its first plumage of true feathers.

2005 Daily Post (Liverpool) (Nexis) 5 Nov. 7 The South West Lancs Ringing Group ringed 54 pullus barn owls in their area this year.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	pullus
释义	pullusn. Brit. /ˈpʊləs/, U.S. /ˈpələs/ Inflections: Plural pulli. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin pullus. Etymology: < classical Latin pullus young chick (see pull n.²). Compare earlier pull n.² Chiefly Ornithology. Originally: †a chick still within the egg (obsolete). In later use: a young bird, spec. one that is not yet able to fly (also as a modifier).Somewhat rare until the mid 20th cent., when it was readopted with reference to the age at which birds are ringed (banded) for ornithological study. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > young bird > [noun] birdOE chicka1398 chickena1398 brancher?a1400 pulla1500 birdling1611 puler1611 pullus1653 squeaker1654 birdeen1829 chicklet1836 baby bird1841 chirpling1888 1653 W. Harvey Anat. Exercitations xxiii. 131 Yet it doth no way appear, that the Pullus doth by his cry signifie the necessity of his release from the Shell to his Mother. 1698 W. Cowper Anat. Humane Bodies Introd. sig. c^v/1 Before impregnation, no Vestigia of the Pullus could be found. 1702 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 23 1238 The Respiratory Motion..will in the Body of the Pullus be regular and circulatory. 1774 G. White Let. 2 Sept. in Nat. Hist. Selborne (1789) 100 I had been..comparing the tails of the male and female swallow, and this ere any young broods appeared; so that there was no danger of confounding the dams with their pulli. 1865 Proc. Royal Soc. 14 113 Dr. Bennett's beautiful Cassowaries, the ‘Mooruks’, have yielded two ripe pulli; these were both hatched alive at the Society's Gardens. 1948 Larus 2 7 The birds were caught as pulli or adults both in and out of the nest and were set free after banding. 1964 A. L. Thomson New Dict. Birds 904/2 After the pullus stage a bird is described as ‘juvenile’ while wearing its first plumage of true feathers. 2005 Daily Post (Liverpool) (Nexis) 5 Nov. 7 The South West Lancs Ringing Group ringed 54 pullus barn owls in their area this year. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1653
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