| 单词 | ring-billed |
| 释义 | > as lemmasring-billed c. With the sense ‘having a ring or rings of contrasting colour’, as ring-banded, ring-billed, etc., occurring chiefly in the names of birds. See also ring-billed gull n. and ring-billed mew-gull n. at Compounds 2b; ring-necked adj., ring-tailed adj. ΚΠ 1802 G. Shaw Gen. Zool. III. ii. 492 Ring-banded Snake, Coluber Doliatus... A small, but highly elegant, species. 1874 J. W. Long Amer. Wild-fowl Shooting 276 Ring-necked Duck... Local names, ‘Ring-billed Duck’ [etc.]. 1890 J. P. Ballard Among Moths & Butterflies 79 The black ring-notched chrysalis. 1967 T. Lewis & L. R. Taylor Introd. Exper. Ecol. iv. 183 Only Forficula auricularia (Common European Earwig)..is likely to be encountered in U.K. In U.S., Euborellia annulipes (Ring-legged Earwig) may be more common. 1977 Biotropica 9 106/1 The red (or orange) ring-banded pattern of the hermathena larva is superficially similar to that of the primitive heliconian Philaethria pygmalion. < as lemmas |
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