| 单词 | purple sandpiper |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspurple sandpiper purple sandpiper n. a small wading bird, Calidris maritima (family Scolopacidae), that breeds in Iceland, Greenland, and some other Arctic and subarctic regions and has predominantly dark grey plumage in winter. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Scolopacidae (snipes, etc.) > [noun] > genus Calidris > calidris maritima (purple sandpiper) stone-pecker1731 red-legged sandpiper1785 red-leg1798 purple sandpiper1802 rock snipe1835 rock sandpiper1842 rock-bird1917 1802 G. Montagu Ornithol. Dict. at Sandpiper—Purple Purple Sandpiper. 1860 S. F. Baird Birds N. Amer. I. 717 The purple sandpiper..is frequently met with on the shores of the Atlantic. 1996 Scotland's Nat. Heritage Mar. (Cairngorms Suppl.) 14/2 Rarities such as purple sandpipers and Lapland bunting nest occasionally. < as lemmas |
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