单词 | thick-kneed bustard |
释义 | > as lemmasthick-kneed bustard ˈthick-ˌkneed adj. having thick knees; esp. in thick-kneed bustard or thick-kneed plover, the Stone Curlew. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > [adjective] > of the thick-knee thick-kneed1776 1776 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. (ed. 4, octavo) I. ii. 287 Bustard..Thick-kneed. 1840 [see main sense]. 1893 A. Newton et al. Dict. Birds: Pt. 1 129 The Curlew of inlanders, or Stone-Curlew—called also..most wrongly..the Thick-knee or Thick-kneed Bustard. < as lemmas |
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