单词 | swamp pheasant |
释义 | > as lemmasswamp pheasant swamp pheasant n. the Pheasant Coucal of New South Wales, Centropus phasianus. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Cuculiformes (cuckoos, etc.) > [noun] > family Cuculidae > member of genus Centropus (coucal) > centropus phasianus (pheasant-coucal) pheasant coucal1801 pheasant cuckoo1827 swamp pheasant1847 1847 F. W. L. Leichhardt Jrnl. Overland Exped. Austral. iii. 60 A Centropus phasianellus (the Swamp pheasant of Moreton Bay) was shot. 1890 C. Lumholtz Among Cannibals 94 Although it is really a cuckoo, the colonists call it the ‘swamp pheasant’, because it has a tail like a pheasant. < as lemmas |
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