| 单词 | scrape ceremony |
| 释义 | > as lemmasscrape ceremony scrape ceremony n. Ornithology a display by a bird, involving the excavation of a shallow pit in the ground and the pressing of the bird's breast into this, frequently performed during courtship. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > actions or bird defined by > [noun] > sexual display > scrape ceremony scrape ceremony1926 1926 Huxley & Montague in Ibis 2 10 Nervous picking at grass..may be seen during incubation, scrape-ceremonies and before coition. 1949 Brit. Birds 42 8 Both sexes indulge in the ‘scrape’ ceremony and in many of the actions characteristic of nest-building. 1961 D. A. Bannerman Birds Brit. Isles IX. 15 The main type of sexual behaviour preceding coition is the tail-display... At this stage the scrape-ceremony is very common, a typically male performance by which he lures the female to one scrape after another. < as lemmas |
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