| 单词 | ruffed bustard |
| 释义 | > as lemmasruffed bustard ruffed bustard n. the houbara bustard, Chlamydotis undulata.Formerly applied to two forms that have since been conflated under a single species. ΚΠ 1783 J. Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds II. ii. 805 Ruffed Bustard. 1819 J. F. Stephens Shaw's Gen. Zool. XI. 448 Ruffed bustard..inhabits Arabia and the northern parts of Africa. 1911 Encycl. Sport & Games (new ed.) I. 371/2 The Western Ruffed Bustard or Houbara, O. undulata.., occasionally wanders to S. Europe, and is found in the Canary Islands. 2009 J. Finder Vanished xix. 88 Found myself staring at some of the weirder-looking birds on the wall—the Ruffed Bustard, the Sacred ibis, the Balearic crane. < as lemmas |
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