单词 | smew |
释义 | smewn. A saw-billed duck (Mergus or Mergellus albellus) belonging to the merganser group; the white nun.red-headed smew: see the first element. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Anseriformes (geese, etc.) > subfamily Merginae (duck) > [noun] > genus Mergus (merganser) > mergus albellus (smew) smeath1622 nun1666 merganser1668 smee1668 smew1674 weasela1682 Easterling1772 magpie diver1796 vare-widgeon1813 1674 Dent in Ray's Lett. (1718) 21 A Pocker, a Smew, three Sheldins. 1678 J. Ray tr. F. Willughby Ornithol. iii. iii. iv. iv. 338 It was sent us by Mr. Dent..by the name of a Smew. 1710 Philos. Trans. 1708–09 (Royal Soc.) 26 466 Mergus major cirratus, the Smew, or White Nun. 1766 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. ii. 148 Red headed Smew..the head is slightly crested, and of a rust color. 1785 J. Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds III. ii. 429 The Smew is seen in England only in winter. 1838 J. J. Audubon Ornithol. Biogr. IV. 350 The Smew is a bird of extremely rare occurrence in the United States. 1891 Nature 4 June 106/2 Last January a friend showed me a smew..shot on the Dee, near Chester. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1674 |
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