请输入您要查询的英文单词:

 

单词 rock grouse
释义

> as lemmas

rock grouse
rock grouse n. (a) = rock ptarmigan n. (now historical); (b) (in India) a sandgrouse (genus Pterocles) (obsolete).
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > family Tetraonidae (grouse) > [noun] > genus Lagopus > lagopus mutus (ptarmigan)
ptarmigan1599
white partridge1610
snow-hen1648
white game1678
lagopus1693
grey fowl1712
rype1744
white grouse1771
rock grouse1785
tanmerack1792
ripa1830
snow-grouse1884
lagopode1901
the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Columbiformes (pigeons, etc.) > [noun] > family Pteroclidae (sand-grouse) > pterocles namaqua (Namaqua sandgrouse)
Namaqua partridge1790
Namaqua grouse1801
rock grouse1864
Namaqua sandgrouse1891
1785 T. Pennant Arctic Zool. II. ii. 312 Rock..Grous... Never takes shelter in the woods, but sits on the rocks, or burrows in the snow.
1831 Richardson in Wilson's Amer. Ornith. IV. 330 The rock grouse, in its manners and mode of living, resembles the willow grouse.
1864 T. C. Jerdon Game Birds & Wild Fowl of India 8 The Sand-grouse or Rock-grouse [are] commonly called Rock-pigeons in India.
1885 E. Balfour Cycl. India (ed. 3) III. 302/2 Pterocles.., the sand grouse or rock grouse of Europeans in India.
1889 M. Reid Young Voyageurs (new ed.) xxxiv. 327 It is a larger bird than the other, which is ‘the rock-grouse’ (Tetrao rupestris). Both are sometimes, though erroneously, called ‘ptarmigan’.
1921 A. F. R. Wollaston Life Alfred Newton x. 176 Edwards described and figured under the name of ‘Rock Grouse’ a Ptarmigan from Hudson's Bay.
extracted from rockn.1
<
as lemmas
随便看

 

英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。

 

Copyright © 2004-2022 Newdu.com All Rights Reserved
更新时间:2025/1/11 12:16:11