| 单词 | purple gallinule |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspurple gallinule purple gallinule n. (a) = purple swamphen n.; (b) (also American purple gallinule) a similar but smaller North American rail, Porphyrio (or Porphyrula, or Gallinula) martinica, with more iridescent plumage and yellow legs. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Gruiformes > [noun] > family Rallidae (rail) water henc1520 railbird1574 purple gallinule1782 rail1792 water cock1864 the world > animals > birds > order Gruiformes > [noun] > family Rallidae (rail) > porphyrio porphyrio (swamp hen) porphyrioa1425 purple gallinule1782 purple water-hen1790 pukeko1835 sultana1837 swamp hen1848 1782 T. Martyn Heads of Course of Lect. Nat. Hist. 12 (table) Gallinule. [Species:] Common. Purple. 1814 A. Wilson & G. Ord Amer. Ornithol. IX. 71 The Purple Gallinule [was seen] in a thick swamp, a short distance from Savannah, Georgia. 1888 Riverside Nat. Hist. IV. 131 The purple-gallinules..typified by the European species (Porphyrio porphyrio) and the American Ionornis martinica. 1909 W. Verner My Life among Wild Birds in Spain ii. i. 99 I have..been startled by the curious cry of the big Purple Gallinule. 1960 in Brit. Birds 53 147 (title) The American Purple Gallinule breeds in the southern and south-eastern United States. < as lemmas |
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