单词 | satin bird |
释义 | > as lemmassatin bird satin bird n. now rare the satin bowerbird, Ptilorhynchus violaceus. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > larger song birds > [noun] > family Ptilinorhynchidae (bower-bird) > genus Ptilorhynchus (satin-bower-bird) satin bird1822 1822 J. Latham Gen. Hist. Birds III. 171 Satin Grakle... Specimens of these are in the Museum of the Linnaean Society, where it is called Satin-Bird. 1860 G. Bennett Gatherings of Naturalist in Austral. x. 234 Satin-birds are now seen very frequently in captivity in Sydney. 1960 R. Craft Diary 22 Nov. in I. Stravinsky & R. Craft Dialogues & Diary (1963) 186 Red-headed lorikeets, red-eyed manucodes, gaudy macaws, cassowaries, ‘satin birds’ who fill their nests with bits of anything blue. < as lemmas |
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