单词 | royal eagle |
释义 | > as lemmasroyal eagle royal eagle n. [compare Middle French, French aigle royal (early 16th cent.)] the golden eagle, Aquila chrysaetos. The royal eagle appears for a time to have been thought a distinct kind (cf. quot. 1575).In quot. 2000 apparently translating the French name. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Falconiformes (falcons, etc.) > family Accipitridae (hawks, etc.) > [noun] > eagles > genus Aquila > aquila chrysaetos (golden eagle) royal eaglec1425 golden eagle1676 mountain eagle1802 war-bird1836 war-eagle1855 c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) iv. l. 5937 (MED) Þer cam anon doun oute of þe ayre A royal egle ful percinge of his loke. 1575 G. Turberville Bk. Faulconrie 14 The Eagle royall, which is the yellow and tawnie Eagle,..doth as muche differ from the yellowe Eagle, as the blacke Mylion doth from the Mylion Royall.] 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. xi. 232 The Royal Eagle, is of colour reddish, and is called in Greek Gnesios, it is of a midle bigness to the other Eagles. 1859 S. G. Goodrich Illustr. Nat. Hist. Animal Kingdom II. 40 The Royal Eagle or Golden Eagle, A. chrysatos or A. fulvus, the Common Eagle of Europe, may be taken as the type of the genus. 1930 Hispania 13 526 I picture Bolívar..as a royal eagle soaring through space to a pinnacle of glory. 2000 Guardian 1 Mar. i. 25/5 A royal eagle (aquila chrysaetus [sic])—one of the resident four pairs—glides above abandoned Valpreveyre. < as lemmas |
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