| 单词 | black-winged stilt |
| 释义 | > as lemmasblack-winged stilt black-winged stilt n. [compare scientific Latin Himantopus melanopterus (1820)] any of several slender, long-billed wading birds with black and white plumage and long, slender pink legs, now or formerly regarded as forms of the common stilt, Himantopus himantopus (family Recurvirostridae); spec. a bird of the typical form found in Eurasia and Africa.The five forms that are now usually regarded as subspecies of H. himantopus are sometimes treated as full species. ΚΠ 1824 J. F. Stephens Shaw's Gen. Zool. XII. i. 179 Black-winged Longshanks.] 1833 P. J. Selby Illustr. Brit. Ornithol. II. 247 Black-winged Stilt. Himantopus melanopterus, Meyer. 1961 D. A. Bannerman Birds Brit. Isles X. 281 Mr. Yeates does not appear to have witnessed..the curious courting actions of the black-winged stilt. 2008 Independent 31 May 25/1 A family of black-winged stilt chicks have hatched for the first time in Britain since 1987. < as lemmas |
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