单词 | red-winged |
释义 | red-wingedadj. Having red wings (in early use also figurative). In later use chiefly in the names of birds (see also Compounds). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > parts of or bird defined by > [adjective] > having wings > of particular colour gold-winged1605 red-winged1633 golden-winged1729 blue-winged1733 red-shouldered1785 black-winged1829 the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Hymenoptera > [adjective] > belonging to division Petiolata > of or relating to ants > red-winged red-winged1633 1633 T. Bancroft Gluttons Feauer sig. C4 Were the hot engines, all that euer flew, With red-wing'd lightning, to my torture cast. 1660 R. Stapleton tr. Juvenal Mores Hominum xi. 400 That huge red-wing'd Phaenicopterus. 1664 H. Power Exper. Philos. i. v. 8 I mean in a white Butterfly, for in a red-wing'd Butterfly, her eye is all black and full of perforations as in a Common Fly. 1712 R. Blackmore Creation v. 247 The red-wing'd Fire must to the Moon arise. 1752 J. Hill Gen. Nat. Hist. III. 54 The red-winged Cantharus, with a red thorax. 1781 J. Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds I. i. 246 Little Red-winged Parakeet. 1839 J. J. Audubon Ornithol. Biogr. V. 3 Their habits are similar to those of the Red-winged Icterus. 1898 Westm. Gaz. 6 Sept. 8/2 Millions of red-winged ants. 1945 C. Barrett Austral. Bird Life 193 The red-winged wren..is restricted to coastal districts in the South-west. 1994 Science 3 Dec. 44/1 My favourite are the eggs of the red-winged tinamou, with their amazing, porcelain-like gloss. Compounds red-winged blackbird n. a common songbird of North and Central America, Agelaius phoeniceus (family Icteridae), the male of which has glossy black plumage with a red patch on the shoulder. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > arboreal families > family Icteridae > [noun] > genus Agelaius > agelaius phoeniceus (red-winged blackbird) red-winged starling1729 red-winged blackbird?1769 maize thief1772 redwing1778 red-winged oriole1785 red-winged troopial1825 redwing blackbird1830 maize-bird1836 maizer1837 swamp blackbird1891 officer1902 ?1769 Catal. Cabinet of Birds 2 The Red-wing'd Blackbird, well known. 1797 W. Dunlap Diary (1931) I. 68 Cross over to my Orchard [in Amboy, N.Y.]... Kill 5 snipe, 3 red wing'd black birds, 2 Larks and a Bittern. 1811 A. Wilson Amer. Ornithol. IV. 37 Starlings..are known by various names in the different states of the union; such as the Swamp Blackbird, Marsh Blackbird, Red-winged Blackbird. 1907 ‘N. Blanchan’ Birds Every Child should Know xvii. 263 Red-winged blackbirds flute above the phalanxes of rushes on its banks. 2006 Vermont Life Autumn 13 The raucous red-winged blackbirds and evening grosbeaks disappear. red-winged lory n. now rare = red-winged parrot n. ΚΠ 1848 J. Gould Birds Austral. V. Pl. 18 Aprosmictus erythropterus. Red-winged Lory..Crimson-winged Parrot. 1908 E. J. Banfield Confessions of Beachcomber iii. 99 The red-winged lory..and other well-known species..do not use the island for nesting. 1945 C. Barrett Austral. Bird Life 75 The red-winged lory..and the red-sided parrot..both rival the king parrot in colour beauty. red-winged oriole n. now rare = red-winged blackbird n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > arboreal families > family Icteridae > [noun] > genus Agelaius > agelaius phoeniceus (red-winged blackbird) red-winged starling1729 red-winged blackbird?1769 maize thief1772 redwing1778 red-winged oriole1785 red-winged troopial1825 redwing blackbird1830 maize-bird1836 maizer1837 swamp blackbird1891 officer1902 1785 T. Pennant Arctic Zool. II. ii. 256 The Red-winged Orioles build their nests in bushes. 1859 S. G. Goodrich Illustr. Nat. Hist. Animal Kingdom II. 186 The Red-winged Oriole, I. phœniceus, is seven and a half inches long, color black, lesser tail-coverts red. 1945 Athens (Ohio) Messenger 21 Mar. 3/5 Official arrival of spring last evening..was marked with..many birds, including the red-winged oriole, bluebirds, martins and robins, nesting. red-winged parrot n. a mainly green parrot of northern Australia, Aprosmictus erythropterus, the adult male of which has a red patch on the wing. ΚΠ 1835 List Additions Coll. Brit. Mus. 1833 210 Specimens of Red-winged Parrot, Psittacus erythropterus. 1929 A. H. Chisholm Birds & Green Places 48 The radiance of the red-winged parrots. 2000 Jrnl. Biogeogr. 27 835/1 Three species occur in eastern and south-eastern Australia..and one (the red-winged parrot Aprosmictus erythropterus..) throughout the subhumid summer rainfall zone. red-winged starling n. (a) North American = red-winged blackbird n. (now rare); (b) any of several African starlings of the genus Onychognathus with red feathers on the wings; esp. O. morio of eastern and southern Africa. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > arboreal families > family Icteridae > [noun] > genus Agelaius > agelaius phoeniceus (red-winged blackbird) red-winged starling1729 red-winged blackbird?1769 maize thief1772 redwing1778 red-winged oriole1785 red-winged troopial1825 redwing blackbird1830 maize-bird1836 maizer1837 swamp blackbird1891 officer1902 1729 M. Catesby Nat. Hist. Carolina I. i. Pl. 13 Sturnus niger alis superne rubentibus. The red wing'd Starling. ?a1808 Genuine & Univ. Syst. Nat. Hist. VIII. 358 At the Cape, they call this bird berg-sprew, mountain starling; or rooge-vlerk sprew, red-winged starling. 1864–5 J. G. Wood Homes without Hands 537 One of the most variable of birds in its nesting is the well known Red-winged Starling of North America. 1902 S. Clapin New Dict. Amer. 292 Officer bird, a common name, especially in Canada and the Northern States, for the red-winged starling. 2000 Jrnl. Southern Afr. Stud. 26 659 The red-winged starling's penchant for berries of cestrum [was blamed] for that poisonous shrub's rapid spread in the Knysna division. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > arboreal families > family Icteridae > [noun] > genus Agelaius > agelaius phoeniceus (red-winged blackbird) red-winged starling1729 red-winged blackbird?1769 maize thief1772 redwing1778 red-winged oriole1785 red-winged troopial1825 redwing blackbird1830 maize-bird1836 maizer1837 swamp blackbird1891 officer1902 1825 C. L. Bonaparte Amer. Ornithol. I. 28 Red-winged Troopial. 1844 G. Emerson Johnson's Farmer's Encycl. (new ed.) 185/1 The red- winged troopial or the cow-pen bird. 1895 C. C. Abbott Birds about Us iii. 129 Their notes resemble those of the Red-winged Troopial, but are more musical. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.1633 |
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