| 单词 | red-breasted snipe |
| 释义 | > as lemmasred-breasted snipe red-breasted snipe n. the short-billed dowitcher, Limnodromus griseus. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Scolopacidae (snipes, etc.) > [noun] > limnodromus griseus (dowitcher) grey snipe1756 red-breasted snipe?a1808 dowitcher1841 brown-back1844 ?a1808 Universal Syst. Nat. Hist. VI. 53 The Red-breasted Snipe.—Scolopax Novaboracensis. This is the size of the common Snipe... It is an American bird. 1866 Chambers's Encycl. VIII. 788/1 The Red-breasted Snipe, or Brown Snipe (Macrorhamphus griseus) of North America has been occasionally seen in Britain. 1954 Times 26 Nov. 10/4 The dowitcher..[is] perhaps better known on this side of the Atlantic as the red-breasted snipe. 1991 J. M. Levinson & S. G. Headley Shorebirds i. 5/1 The dowitcher was called a brownback in Cape Cod, a red-breasted snipe on Long Island, and a doe-witche in Barnegat. < as lemmas |
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