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单词 rose-coloured pelican
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rose-coloured pelican
rose-coloured pelican n. [after French pélican rose ( P. Sonnerat Voyage à la Nouvelle Guinée (1776) pl. 54)] Obsolete the great white pelican, Pelecanus onocrotalus, in its pink-tinted breeding plumage.Formerly regarded as a separate Asian species, P. roseus.
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1785 J. Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds III. ii. 579 Rose-coloured Pelican, the plumage wholly of a rose-colour.
1883 E. W. Oates Handbk. Birds Brit. Burmah II. 238 This latter name [sc. P. roseus] was founded by Gmelin on Latham's ‘Rose-coloured Pelican’... The White Pelican during the breeding-season is of a beautiful rose-colour throughout.
1898 W. R. Ogilive-Grant in R. B. Sharpe & W. R. Ogilive-Grant Catal. Birds Brit. Mus. XXVI. 466 Pelecanus roseus... Rose-coloured Pelican.
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