单词 | silk fowl |
释义 | > as lemmassilk fowl silk fowl n. a silk-cock or -hen; (see also quot. 1835-6). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > family Phasianidae (pheasants, etc.) > [noun] > genus Phasianus > phasianus gallus (silk fowl) silk cock1783 silk fowl1835 painted quail1848 silky1850 1835–6 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. I. 270/1 The Silk or Negro-fowl of the Cape de Verd Islands (Gallus Morio, Temminck). 1885 Encycl. Brit. XIX. 645/2 The silk fowl best known is that in which the plumage is perfectly white. < as lemmas |
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