| 单词 | scrub-turkey |
| 释义 | > as lemmasscrub-turkey scrub-turkey n. a large mound-building bird, Alectura lathami, found in Australian forests and having a red head and brown body. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > [noun] > member of Megapodidae (mound-builder) > alectura lathami (scrub-turkey) scrub-turkey1872 1872 C. H. Eden My Wife & I in Queensland 124 The scrub turkey (Talegalla Lathami)..much resembles the English hen turkey, though but little larger than a fowl. 1885 R. C. Praed Head Station xxxv Mollie Clephane had filled one of the saddle-bags with wild plums, chuckie-chuckies, and the scrub-turkey's eggs. 1940 F. D. Davison Woman at Mill 86 The scrub turkey had her home, her nesting mounds of leaf and forest debris. 1967 Courier Mail (Brisbane) 26 June 8 Normal mounding activity by feverishly active scrub turkeys in South-Eastern Queensland begins late in June, ending the following March. scrub-turkey a. Applied with qualification to other birds: A local name of the Bustard; now usually applied to the Australian Bustard, also called native, plain, or wild turkey (Eupodotis (Otis) australis); in Australia also, the brush- or wattled turkey and the scrub-turkey: see these words; in America, Colorado or water-turkey, names for native species of Ibis; water-turkey, the Darter or Snake-bird ( Plotus anhinga); in South Africa, the Bald Ibis ( Gerontius calvus). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Gruiformes > [noun] > family Otididae > member of genus Ardeotis (Australian bustard) kori bustard1811 gompaauw1838 native, plain, or wild turkey1847 plain turkey1866 plains turkey1914 the world > animals > birds > order Pelecaniformes > [noun] > member of family Anhingidae (darter) anhinga1769 snake-bird1791 darter1825 serpent bird1870 Colorado or water-turkeya1889 1847 W. B. Carpenter Zool.: Systematic Acct. I. §435 Termed..the Brush Turkey, on account of the wattles with which its neck is furnished. 1848 J. Gould Birds Austral. VI. pl. 4 Australian Bustard;..Native Turkey. 1852 W. J. Broderip Leaves Note Bk. of Naturalist 139 The brush-turkey belongs to a family of birds..which never incubate, but..leave their eggs to the genial warmth of this half-natural, half artificial mother. c1868 G. Pryme in Autobiog. Recoll. (1870) xxvi. 386 I have seen Bustards,..which the natives called Wild Turkey,..flying over the Gogmagog Hills. 1872 C. H. Eden My Wife & I in Queensland iv. 122 The plain turkey or bustard (Otis Australasianus),..the male weighing from eighteen to twenty-five pounds. 1872 C. H. Eden My Wife & I in Queensland 124 The scrub turkey (Talegalla Lathami)..much resembles the English hen turkey, though but little larger than a fowl. a1889 Amer. Cycl. V. 692 This bird [Plotus anhinga] is a constant resident in Florida, and the lower parts of Louisiana, Alabama, and Georgia... In these localities it bears the various names of water crow, Grecian lady, water turkey, and cormorant. < as lemmas |
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