| 单词 | black eagle |
| 释义 | > as lemmasblack eagle black eagle n. an eagle with chiefly black plumage; esp. (a) Verreaux's eagle, Aquila verreauxii, of Africa; (b) (more fully Indian black eagle) Ictinaetus malayensis, of tropical Asia.The black eagle of Homer and Aristotle (see quot. a1797) is probably Verreaux's eagle. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Falconiformes (falcons, etc.) > family Accipitridae (hawks, etc.) > [noun] > eagles > genus Aquila > other types of black eagle1575 tawny eagle1859 Verreaux's eagle1867 1575 G. Turberville Bk. Faulconrie 8 The trayne of the Egle Royall, as also the trayne of the slender blacke Egle, is short and stiffe at the poynt, euen as the traine of the Vulture is. 1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 783 There is one kinde of gentle faulcons or roiall eagles bred in the mountaines, which Homer calleth the Blacke eagle for game. a1797 J. Parkhurst Hebrew & Eng. Lexicon (1799) 520/2 The black eagle, so called, according to Bockhart, from it's great strength in proportion to it's size. Thus Homer describes it... The same account is given of it by Aristotle, Pliny, and other writers. 1816 Times 11 Sept. 3/2 The sculls of a sea-horse and bear, the ear of a whale, and the preserved skin of a black eagle. 1906 A. O. Hume Nests & Eggs Indian birds 131 The female, shot on the nest, was sent to me—an old, unmistakable, black Eagle, with conspicuous white scapular patches. 1951 Cape Argus 20 Oct. (Mag.) 2/4 Most difficult of all birds to shoot, Hoesch found, was the black eagle or dassievanger. 1970 S. T. Satyamurti Guide Bird Gallery 102 The Indian Black Eagle (Ictinaetus malayensis perniger) is a graceful long winged bird. 2006 P. Ryan Birdwatching Southern Afr. (new ed.) iii. 27 Verreauxs' Eagle was called Black Eagle in southern Africa, but its East African name was preferred to avoid confusion with the Indian Black Eagle Ictinaetus malayensis. < as lemmas |
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