| 单词 | redtail snapper |
| 释义 | > as lemmasredtail snapper attributive in the names of animals and birds, as redtail hawk, redtail lizard, redtail monkey, redtail parrot, redtail shark, redtail snapper, redtail sucker, redtail warbler. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > animal body > markings or colourings > [adjective] > red- or rust-coloured > red-tailed red-tailed1611 redtail1802 firetail1864 1802 G. Shaw Gen. Zool. III. i. 244 Red-tail Lizard. Lacerta Cruenta. 1817 J. F. Stephens Shaw's Gen. Zool. X. ii. 674 Red-Tail Warbler (Sylvia Erithracus). 1820 Rafinesque in Smithson. Coll. (1877) XIII. ix. 37 Red-tail Sucker, Catostomus Erythrurus. 1842 Z. Thompson Hist. Vermont i. 66 This owl, according to Audubon, does not build a nest, but lays its eggs..in a hollow tree, and sometimes in the old nest of a crow or red-tail hawk. 1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. 58 The wearer's hair aglow with red-tail parrots' feathers. 1945 Internat. Jrnl. Amer. Linguistics 11 235/1 Other names for this fish [sc. Neomaenis synagris] are Lane Snapper, Redtail Snapper, [etc.]. 1951 Jrnl. Animal Ecol. 20 32 The writer, during current work in Uganda on the redtail monkey (Cercopithecus ascanius schmidti Matschie) has found no evidence of territory. 1969 Northern Territory News 11 July 13/2 The tank contains among others, redtail shark..and scissor fish. 1997 J. Moore Never eat your Heart Out 271 The thick..lashes blink when they hear the flapping overflights of redtail hawks or the occasional vulture. < as lemmas |
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