单词 | red curlew |
释义 | > as lemmasred curlew red curlew n. †(a) the scarlet ibis, Eudocimus ruber (obsolete); (b) U.S. = red marlin n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Ciconiiformes (storks, etc.) > [noun] > family Threskiornithidae (ibises and spoonbills) > member of (ibis) > eudocimus ruber (scarlet ibis) guara1678 red curlew1731 scarlet ibis1785 1731 M. Catesby Nat. Hist. Carolina I. 84 Numenius ruber. The Red Curlew... These Birds frequent the Coast of the Bahama Islands, and other parts of America between the Tropicks. 1769 E. Bancroft Ess. Nat. Hist. Guiana 172 The Curlew of Guiana is the Indian or Red Curlew of Ray. 1813 A. Wilson Amer. Ornithol. VII. 30 Our gunners call it [sc. the godwit] the Straight-billed Curlew, and sometimes the Red Curlew. 1877 J. B. Holder Hist. Amer. Fauna in J. Richardson et al. Museum Nat. Hist. III. p. clxxxvii/2 Great Marbled Godwit (Limosa fedoa)... It is called by the gunners the Straight-billed Curlew, and by others the Red Curlew. 1956 Bull. Mass. Audubon Soc. 40 20 Marbled Godwit... Red Curlew. < as lemmas |
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