单词 | brown-back |
释义 | > as lemmasbrown-back brown-back n. U.S. (a) the red-breasted snipe or dowitcher in summer plumage; (b) the great marbled godwit, Limosa fedoa (Cent. Dict., 1889). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Scolopacidae (snipes, etc.) > [noun] > limnodromus griseus (dowitcher) grey snipe1756 red-breasted snipe?a1808 dowitcher1841 brown-back1844 1844 J. E. De Kay Zool. N.-Y. ii. 255 The Dowitchee..or Brown-back. 1872 E. Coues Key to N. Amer. Birds 252 Macrorhamphus. Red-breasted Snipe. Gray Snipe. Brown-back. 1893 Outing 22 96/2 ‘Brown-back’ snipe. < as lemmas |
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