单词 | rough-wing |
释义 | > as lemmasrough-wing rough-wing n. (a) any of various small moths of the genera Acleris and Phtheochroa (family Tortricidae) which have a fringe of long scales on the edge of the wing (now rare); also rough-wing tortrix; (b) North American = rough-winged swallow n. at Compounds 5b(c). ΚΠ 1819 G. Samouelle Entomologist's Compend. 408 Tortrix rugosana, the Rough-wing. 1876 Amer. Naturalist 10 494 The rough-wing often does build about bridges. 1907 Bull. Misc. Information (Royal Bot. Gardens, Kew) No. 5. 176 Peronea variegana... ‘The Rough Wing Tortrix’. 1977 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 20 July 29/3 Some half-dozen rough-wings were playing about the grassy and bush-grown borders of the stream. 2005 Madame Bovary's Ovaries (2008) vii. 252 Rough-wing parents will even feed bank swallow babies; bank swallow parents reject any babies not their own. < as lemmas |
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