单词 | sappho |
释义 | Sapphon. 1. Ornithology. In full Sappho comet. A large South American hummingbird found in the central Andes, Sappho sparganura, which has a green head, violet back and rump, and (in the male) a long, deeply forked reddish-gold tail with black bars. Cf. comet n. 3. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Apodiformes > [noun] > family Trochilidae (humming-bird) > genus Sappho Sappho1843 comet1852 1843 Penny Cycl. XXV. 272/1 [Humming-Birds] 11th Race. The Sapphos. 1852 J. Gould Monogr. Trochilidæ (1861) III. Pl. 174 (heading) Cometes sparganurus. The Sappho Comet. 1862 J. G. Wood Illustr. Nat. Hist. (new ed.) II. 250 In the lands where the Sappho lives, putrefaction takes place with such rapidity, that a delay of a few hours is fatal to the perfection of the skin. 1901 E. Selous Beautiful Birds viii. 133 Another Humming-bird—the Sappho Comet—is about the same size as the last one, and he is a lovely gleaming green. 1961 Bridgeport (Connecticut) Post 16 Sept. 12/4 The sappho comet is one of the numerous hummers of the Andes. 2013 Eye for Art (National Gallery Art U.S.) i. 8/2 Three hummingbirds, a Sappho Comet (green with a yellow throat and brilliant red tail feathers) and two Brazilian Amethysts (green with pink throats). 2. Astronomy. (The name of) an asteroid located in the asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, the 80th asteroid in order of discovery. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > planet > primary planet > minor planet or asteroid > [noun] > specific Vesta1807 Juno1834 Victoria1851 psyche1852 Urania1855 iris1858 Sappho1864 Clio1867 Euterpe1867 Virginia1868 Eros1900 Trojan1918 Amor1932 1864 Pop. Sci. Rev. 3 515 The planet stated to have been discovered by Mr. Pogson in February last..which had already received the name of Sappho, turns out to be the same as that detected in October, 1862, at Copenhagen. 1888 43rd Ann. Rep. Director Astron. Observatory Harvard College 4 Mr. Wendell has observed the positions of..the asteroid (80) Sappho on 8 dates. 1904 Pop. Astron. 12 344 The asteroid Sappho was shown taken by short exposures a few minutes apart, producing a linear image. 1990 Colorado Springs Gaz.-Tel. 5 Nov. d2/2 The Earth at that time slid between Sappho, an asteroid 50 miles in diameter, and the sun. 2006 J. A. Angelo Encycl. Space & Astron. 267/1 In 1889 Gill organized an international effort that successfully made precise measurements of the solar parallax by observing the motion of three asteroids (Iris, Victoria, and Sappho). This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1843 |
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