单词 | thunder-pumper |
释义 | > as lemmasthunder-pumper thunder-pumper n. (a) the American bittern, also called pump-thunder; (b) the American fish Haplodinotus grunniens, also called freshwater drum, croaker, or sheepshead: in both cases from the sounds which they emit. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > family Sciaenidae (drums) > [noun] > member of genus Haplodinotus drummer1615 drum1649 sheep's head1676 bubbler1819 thunder-pumper1877 the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Ciconiiformes (storks, etc.) > [noun] > family Ardeidae (herons and bitterns) > member of genus Botaurus (bittern) > miscellaneous types of American bitternc1330 bitternc1330 shitepoke1775 dunkadooa1813 matuku1847 stake-driver1872 thunder-pumper1877 1877 Scribner's Monthly July 285/2 The natives call these bitterns by the very appropriate if not euphonious name of ‘thunder-pumper’. 1888 G. B. Goode Amer. Fishes 142 The name..‘Thunder~pumper’, also used for the bittern,..is heard along the Mississippi River. 1891 E. Roper By Track & Trail xxi. 312 The gurgle and the wheeze and the final explosion of a ‘thunder-pumper’ [bittern]. < as lemmas |
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