英语词汇“small locust bird”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

2. South African. A stork or crane, esp. the white stork, Ciconia ciconia (more fully great locust bird). Also: a pratincole (genus Glareola); the wattled starling, Creatophora cinerea (more fully small locust bird or little locust bird).

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1829 Newcastle Courant 23 May 2/4 The only hope of the farmer was from the arrival of an army of the ‘locust birds’, which were preying upon the devourers.

1867 E. L. Layard Birds S. Afr. 291 Glareola Nordmanni,..Small Locust-bird of Colonists.

1881 E. E. Frewer tr. E. Holub Seven Years S. Afr. I. 42 The bird was really the South African grey crane, to which the residents have given the name of ‘the great locust bird’.

1905 Agric. Jrnl. Cape Good Hope Feb. 255 Large flock (about 600) Great Locust Birds is following swarms and doing much havoc.

1911 Auk 28 506 The principal kinds are: a field swallow (i.e., a swallow-plover or pratincole, Glareola melanoptera) known as the ‘little locust bird’.

1936 E. L. Gill First Guide S. Afr. Birds 141 Wattled Starling,..Called Locust-bird because they used..to follow the swarms of locusts, living on them and nesting en masse wherever the locusts happened to settle and breed.

1972 G. J. Broekhuysen in Standard Encycl. Southern Afr. VII. 19 A number of birds belonging to different families are called locust-birds in Southern Africa...They include the pratincoles.., the wattled starling.., and storks.

2012 C. A. Spinage Afr. Ecol. x. 489 Locust swarms are often heralded by the appearance of the palaearctic migrant white stork or locust bird.

单词	small locust bird
释义	> as lemmas small locust bird 2. South African. A stork or crane, esp. the white stork, Ciconia ciconia (more fully great locust bird). Also: a pratincole (genus Glareola); the wattled starling, Creatophora cinerea (more fully small locust bird or little locust bird). ΚΠ 1829 Newcastle Courant 23 May 2/4 The only hope of the farmer was from the arrival of an army of the ‘locust birds’, which were preying upon the devourers. 1867 E. L. Layard Birds S. Afr. 291 Glareola Nordmanni,..Small Locust-bird of Colonists. 1881 E. E. Frewer tr. E. Holub Seven Years S. Afr. I. 42 The bird was really the South African grey crane, to which the residents have given the name of ‘the great locust bird’. 1905 Agric. Jrnl. Cape Good Hope Feb. 255 Large flock (about 600) Great Locust Birds is following swarms and doing much havoc. 1911 Auk 28 506 The principal kinds are: a field swallow (i.e., a swallow-plover or pratincole, Glareola melanoptera) known as the ‘little locust bird’. 1936 E. L. Gill First Guide S. Afr. Birds 141 Wattled Starling,..Called Locust-bird because they used..to follow the swarms of locusts, living on them and nesting en masse wherever the locusts happened to settle and breed. 1972 G. J. Broekhuysen in Standard Encycl. Southern Afr. VII. 19 A number of birds belonging to different families are called locust-birds in Southern Africa...They include the pratincoles.., the wattled starling.., and storks. 2012 C. A. Spinage Afr. Ecol. x. 489 Locust swarms are often heralded by the appearance of the palaearctic migrant white stork or locust bird. extracted from locust birdn. < as lemmas
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