| 单词 | steamer-duck |
| 释义 | > as lemmassteamer-duck a. (transferred from sense 5) The duck Tachyeres (or Micropterus) cinereus (or brachypterus) of the Falkland Islands; the loggerhead or race-horse. Also steamer-duck. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Anseriformes (geese, etc.) > subfamily Merginae (duck) > [noun] > tachyeres brachypterus (steamer) racehorsea1769 loggerhead1776 steamer1827 logger-headed duck1839 1827 P. P. King Voy. Adventure & Beagle I. 35 Here we saw, for the first time, that most remarkable bird the Steamer-duck. 1827 P. P. King Voy. Adventure & Beagle I. 36 I am averse to altering names..; but in this case I do think the name of ‘steamer’ much more appropriate and descriptive of the swift paddling motion of these birds, than that of ‘race-horse’. 1839 C. Darwin in R. Fitzroy & C. Darwin Narr. Surv. Voy. H.M.S. Adventure & Beagle III. xii. 257 These birds [sc. loggerheaded duck or goose] were in former days called, from their extraordinary manner of paddling and splashing upon the water, race-horses; but now they are named,..steamers. 1895 R. Lydekker Royal Nat. Hist. IV. 357 The steamer-duck (Tachyeres cinereus) of the Falkland Islands and Patagonia. < as lemmas |
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