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单词 squacco
释义

squaccon.

Forms: Also 1600s–1800s sguacco.
Etymology: Local Italian sguacco.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈsquacco.
Ornithology.
A small crested species of heron, Ardea ralloides or comata.
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blue heron1565
white heron1575
blue heron1731
squacco1752
frog-catcher1782
purple heron1785
great blue1838
Goliath1860
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1676 F. Willughby & J. Ray Ornithologiæ 206 Ardea quam Sguacco vocant in Vallibus dictis Malalbergi. Hence in Ray's translation (1678) 281.]
1785 J. Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds III. i. 76 Castaneous Heron... It seems a mere variety of the Sguacco, if not differing in sex.
β. 1752 J. Hill Gen. Nat. Hist. III. 465 The yellowish Ardea, with the head and neck variegated with black, white, and yellow. [margin.] The Squacco.1785 J. Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds III. i. 74 Squacco Heron... Size of the blue Heron.1834 R. Mudie Feathered Tribes Brit. Islands II. 148 The Squacco Heron..has been more frequently met with in England than any of the former [species].1879 E. P. Wright Animal Life 327 The Squacco Heron (A. comata) is found in Asia, North Africa, South Europe, and a rare straggler now and then visits England.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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