单词 | round-winged |
释义 | round-wingedadj.1 1. Originally: (chiefly Falconry) designating true hawks of the genus Accipiter. In later use also: (of any bird) having relatively broad, rounded wings. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Falconiformes (falcons, etc.) > family Accipitridae (hawks, etc.) > [adjective] round-winged1575 accipitrine1978 1575 G. Turberville Bk. Faulconrie 63 They are Hawkes of the fiste, and (as wee call them) rounde winged Hawkes, quite contrarie to those I wrote of before. 1837 W. Swainson Nat. Hist. Birds Western Afr. I. 168 Round-winged Weaver. Ploceus brachypterus, Swains... We can find no figure by which this Weaver can be identified with any species yet described. 1852 R. F. Burton Falconry in Valley of Indus ii. 19 The round-winged hawks are principally used in Scinde. 1863 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 153 36 The wings [of Archeopteryx]..agree in form and proportion with those of the Gallinaceous or ‘round-winged’ birds. 1925 Auk 42 585 Small, round-winged Buteones (wing about 230-255 mm.), resembling Rupornis Kaup, but with young conspicuously different in color from the adults. 1963 New Scientist 4 July 12/1 This total is made up of four vultures, six eagles, three buzzards, three round-winged hawks, three kites, one sea-eagle, one honey buzzard, four harriers, one harrier-eagle, one osprey and ten falcons. 2001 J. Ferguson-Lees & D. A. Christie Raptors of World 636/1 Juvenile less immediately obviously different from several other round-winged hawks. 2. gen. Having round or rounded wings. ΚΠ 1773 Wilkes' Eng. Moths & Butterflies (new ed.) Table Caterpillars... Producing round-winged Butterflies. 1843 R. H. Schomburgk Nat. Hist. Fishes Guiana II. 183 Round-winged trygon. 1879 J. D. Hooker Flora Brit. India II. 655 There are examples at Kew in ripe fruit which have most of the capsules round-winged, others on the same stem angularly winged. 1889 Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 3 480 They flap along, quickly or slowly,..quite different from such round-winged creatures as Papilio..or Melanitis. 1916 S. T. Wood Rambles Canad. Naturalist 15 If their delicate stigmas do not succumb to the cold they will soon be strewing the ground with round-winged seeds. 1996 W. Ewald tr. D. Hilbert in From Kant to Hilbert II. xxiv. 1159 This fly is usually grey, red-eyed, unspeckled, round-winged. 2007 S. R. Kaufman & W. Kaufman Invasive Plants ii. 128 Flowers are greenish-red to brown without petals, producing clusters of round-winged seed cases. 3. Entomology. In the names of moths and other insects with rounded wings. See also Compounds. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [adjective] > of or relating to a moth > round-winged round-winged1809 1809 A. H. Haworth Lepidoptera Britannica ii. 289 The round-winged Wave. 1832–3 W. Swainson Zool. Illustr. 2nd Ser. III. Pl. 131 (heading) Round-winged Emerald Butterfly. 1920 W. S. Blatchley Orthoptera Northeastern Amer. 382 Round-winged Locust. Size small for the genus. 1969 D. F. Costello Prairie World vii. 132 The round-winged katydid (Amblycorypha rotundifolia parvipennis )..is usually green but may be pink. 2008 M. J. Samways Dragonflies & Damselflies S. Afr. 18 The Vaal Sprite..and the Round-winged Bluet..occur on the highveld. Compounds round-winged muslin n. a small white European moth, Thumatha senex (family Arctiidae), with thin papery wings. ΚΠ 1869 E. Newman Illustr. Nat. Hist. Brit. Moths 27 The Round-winged Muslin (Nudaria Senex). 1907 R. South Moths Brit. Isles I. 175 The Round-winged Muslin (Comacla senex)..; the wings of this moth are rounder in outline than those of the Muslin. 1989 Irish Naturalists' Jrnl. 23 150 Some other recent records for the county actually turning out to be of the round-winged muslin Thumatha senex. round-winged wave n. now rare a round-winged variant of the common white wave, Cabera pusaria, which is a whitish European geometrid moth. ΚΠ 1809Round-winged wave [see sense 3]. 1908 R. South Moths Brit. Isles II. 267 In most of such aberrations the tips of the fore wings are rather more rounded than in typical specimens, and these are referable to ab. rotundaria, Haworth (Round-winged Wave). This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † round-wingedadj.2 Architecture. Obsolete. rare. = peripteral adj. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > column > [adjective] > having specific arrangement of columns dipteric1664 porticoed1665 false-wingedc1720 round-wingedc1720 peripteral1768 pseudodipteral1771 monopteralc1809 dipteral1812 apteral1834 pseudoperipterala1844 amphi-prostylar1875 c1720 N. Dubois & G. Leoni tr. A. Palladio Architecture IV. i. iii. 8 This prospect is call'd Peripteros, that is, wing'd round.., the same round-wing'd prospect remaining..to every one that saw the Temple in flank. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < adj.11575adj.2c1720 |
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