| 单词 | republican swallow |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrepublican swallow republican swallow n. U.S. (now historical) the cave swallow, Hirundo fulva, which nests communally in caves, sinkholes, etc., and occurs from Texas to Central America. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > non-arboreal (larks, etc.) > [adjective] > living in large groups republican swallow1824 the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > non-arboreal (larks, etc.) > [noun] > family Hirundinidae > genus Petrochelidan > species Pyrrhonota (cliff swallow) republican swallow1824 mud swallow1868 cliff swallow1870 mud-dauber1899 1824 J. J. Audubon in Ann. Lyceum Nat. Hist. N.Y. 1 i. 164 I drew up at the time a description under the name of H. Republicana, Republican swallow, in allusion to their mode of association for the purposes of building and rearing their young. 1917 T. G. Pearson Birds Amer. III. 84 Cliff Swallow... Barn Swallow; Mud Swallow; Republican Swallow. 1937 Condor 39 210 And maybe the fundamental ecologic factors are pretty much the same as in the ‘Republican Swallows’, as they were called by Audubon in 1824. < as lemmas |
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