| 单词 | rock duck |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrock duck rock duck n. †(a) [after Dutch bergeend shelduck (1682 in the text translated in quot. 1704)] a shelduck (in quot. 1704: the South African shelduck, Tadorna cana) (obsolete rare); (b) North American the harlequin duck, Histrionicus histrionicus. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Anseriformes (geese, etc.) > subfamily Merginae (duck) > [noun] > histrionicus histrionicus (harlequin duck) rock duck1704 lord and lady1766 harlequin1772 mountain duck1831 1704 tr. J. Nieuhof Voy. E.-Indies in A. Churchill & J. Churchill Coll. Voy. II. 185/2 This Country [sc. the Cape]..abounds in..Rock-ducks [Du. bergh-enden] with yellow necks, Teal [etc.]. 1884 J. H. Langille Our Birds in their Haunts xix. 487 Shooting the ‘Rock Ducks’, as they call them here, is the rarest sport of the season. 1965 E. Richardson Living Island 185 The handsomest duck I have seen..the male harlequin or rock-duck. < as lemmas |
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