单词 | bristle-bird |
释义 | > as lemmasbristle-bird bristle-bird n. a name given to certain Australian reed-warblers. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > family Muscicapidae (thrushes, etc.) > subfamily Sylviidae (warbler) > [noun] > genus Acrocephalus > other types of grasshopper lark1766 bristle-bird1827 1827 N. A. Vigors & T. Horsfield in Trans. Linn. Soc. 15 232 He [sc. Mr. Caley] calls it in his notes ‘Bristle Bird’. 1865 J. Gould Handbk. Birds Austral. I. 343 Sphenura longirostris... Long-billed Bristle-bird. 1911 A. H. S. Lucas & W. H. D. Le Souëf Birds Austral. 330 The Bristle-birds have a shy disposition, and live in reed-beds and thickets. 1967 M. Sharland Birds of Sun 177 Such species as emu, bristle-bird and two or three other ‘historical’ kinds. < as lemmas |
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