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单词 bird chorus
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bird chorus
a. General use as a modifier with the sense ‘of, involving, or relating to birds’, as in bird book, bird chorus, bird claw, bird flight, bird migration, bird skin, etc. [Compare earlier use in surnames, as Rob Bridebek (1275), Henry Bryddetung (1298).]
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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > skin or hide > skin with hair attached or fur > [noun] > of bird
bird skin1778
the world > animals > birds > parts of or bird defined by > [noun] > toe or claw
clawa700
toec1386
palma1425
pawc1440
talon1486
spur1548
heel1631
heel spur1871
pinion-claw1884
bird claw1889
the world > animals > birds > actions or bird defined by > [noun] > migration
migrationa1633
passage1747
migrating1815
bird migration1908
abmigration1923
society > communication > book > kind of book > [noun] > book about birds
bird book1989
1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. vii. 302 Pullarius..went back to Rome to take the Auspicium [or the presage by the bird-flight] again.
1778 J. Cook Jrnl. 26 Oct. (1967) III. ii. 1142 Their dress consists of a bird skin Frock.
1861 E. Melena tr. G. Garibaldi Recoll. vii. 151 The twitter of an harmonious bird chorus, coming from the dark trees of the ‘Promenade des Maronniers’, was the only sound that fell upon my ear.
1881 A. Leslie tr. A. E. Nordenskiöld Voy. Vega II. xi. 42 The acquaintance I had made..with the bird-world of the high north.
1889 W. B. Yeats Wanderings of Oisin iii. 38 Golden the nails of his bird-claws.
1904 W. H. Hudson Green Mansions iii. 41 Hearing nothing except the usual bird voices.
1908 Westm. Gaz. 1 Feb. 16/1 The bird-migration routes.
1978 Audubon Jan. 63/1 The memorial was thickly whitened with bird droppings.
1986 P. Fuller Marches Past (1991) 93 I imagine my father is ticking off the 8,798 bird species of the world.
1989 I. Frazier Great Plains i. 14 Birds with long curved bills (Hudsonian godwits, the bird book said) flew just above us.
2010 Daily Tel. 16 Nov. 2/6 Police have charged a man over the theft of 299 rare bird skins from the Natural History Museum at Tring.
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