| 单词 | rock-lark |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrock-lark rock-lark n. now rare the rock pipit, Anthus petrosus; (also, by confusion) the meadow pipit, A. campestris. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > non-arboreal (larks, etc.) > [noun] > family Motacillidae > genus Anthus > anthus spinoletta (water-pipit) sea-lark1602 rock-lark1771 rock pipit1830 water pipit1831 shore pipit1837 sea-titling1872 tang-sparrow1880 1771 T. Pennant Tour Scotl. 1769 36 Besides these birds, I observe the following [in the Farn Islands]:..Jackdaws, which breed in rabbet-holes, Rock Pigeons, Rock Larks. 1822 Ann. Philos. New Ser. 4 301 Alauda Campestris... Field or Rock Lark... A better arrangement,—of at least vernacular names, might be contrived... This would lead to the expunging of rock lark, as the bird cannot be one and the other. 1831 J. Rennie Montagu's Ornithol. Dict. (ed. 2) 427 We discovered these birds in great plenty on the coast of South Wales, where it was known by some of the natives by the name of rock lark. 1888 J. M. E. Saxby Lads of Lunda 259 I'll never kill a rock-lark while I live. 1911 Encycl. Brit. XVI. 219/1 The mud-lark, rock-lark, tit-lark and tree-lark are pipits. < as lemmas |
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