单词 | swaddle-bill |
释义 | † swaddle-billn. Obsolete. local North American. The shoveller duck. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Anseriformes (geese, etc.) > subfamily Merginae (duck) > [noun] > member of genus Anas (miscellaneous) > anas clypeata (shoveller) shoveller1674 swaddle-bill1709 1709 J. Lawson New Voy. Carolina 151 Swaddle-Bills are a sort of an ash-colour'd Duck, which have an extraordinary broad Bill, and are good Meat. 1785 T. Pennant Arctic Zool. II. ii. 557 The Swaddle Bill, an ash-colored duck of Carolina, with an extraordinary broad bill. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1918; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < |
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