| 单词 | rhinoceros bird |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrhinoceros bird rhinoceros bird n. †(a) = rhinoceros hornbill n. (obsolete); (b) chiefly South African an oxpecker (genus Buphagus). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Coraciiformes (kingfisher, etc.) > [noun] > family Bucerotidae (hornbill) > buceros rhinoceros rhinocerot1613 rhinoceros1614 rhinocerot bird1678 rhinoceros birda1684 rhinoceros hornbill1781 unicorn hornbill1811 rhino bird1905 the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > larger song birds > [noun] > family Sturnidae > genus Buphagus (ox-pecker) rhinoceros bird1822 beefeater1836 oxpecker1837 tick-bird1850 buffalo-bird1857 ox-biter1885 tick-eater1903 cow-picker1915 1678 J. Ray tr. F. Willughby Ornithol. ii. viii. 127 Rhinocerot Bird.] a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1651 (1955) III. 33 The head of the Rynoceros bird, which was indeede very extravagant. 1708 E. Hatton New View London II. 670/1 The Head of the Horned Crow or Rhinoceros Bird; and the Beak which is a precious Antidote against all manner of Poison. 1822 J. Campbell Trav. S. Afr.: Narr. 2nd Journey I. xxiv. 282 There is a brown bird, about the size of a thrush, called the rhinoceros' bird, from its perching upon those animals and picking off the bush-lice which fix on him. 1930 W. M. Mann Wild Animals in & out of Zoo xvi. 204 Six times we crawled to within thirty or forty feet of them in the bush, attracted at first by the loud zaa-zaa of the rhinoceros birds. 1999 E. Ambros et al. Kenya (ed. 3) 125/1 Many lizards, mongooses, rhinoceros birds and glossy starlings feel just as much at home on the grounds of the lodge as do the tourists. < as lemmas |
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