单词 | qua-bird |
释义 | qua-birdn. U.S. A night heron; esp. the black-crowned night heron, Nycticorax nycticorax. Cf. quawk n. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Ciconiiformes (storks, etc.) > [noun] > family Ardeidae (herons and bitterns) > genus Nycticorax (night-heron) Nycticorax1688 shitepoke1775 Quaker1776 night heron1785 qua-bird1792 mudpoke1809 quawk1844 nankeen crane1872 squawk1872 1792 W. Bartram Trav. N. & S. Carolina (new ed.) ii. x. 291 A. clamator, corpore subcæruleo; the quaw bird, or frogcatcher. 1799 B. S. Barton Fragments Nat. Hist. Pennsylvania 3/2 Night-Heron. (Qua-Bird). 1835 Penny Cycl. IV. 471 The Night Heron or Qua Bird..is found in both the old and new world. 1855 W. Whitman in L. Untermeyer Poetry & Prose of Walt Whitman (1949) 490 Water-pheasant and qua-bird and pied-sheldrake. 1890 E. Gosse Life P. H. Gosse 115 Thompson's Point, the former residence of the night-heron or qua-bird. 1917 Birds of Amer. I. 194 Black-crowned Night Heron. Nycticorax nycticorax nævius... [Also called] American Night Heron; Qua-bird; Quawk. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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