单词 | twenty-eight |
释义 | twenty-eightn. twenty-eight parrakeet, a name for the yellow-collared Parrakeet of Australia ( Platycercus semitorquatus), from its note. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Psittaciformes (parrots, etc.) > [noun] > genus Platycercus (rosella) nonpareil1794 rosella1829 twenty-eight parrakeet1848 kakariki1855 1848 J. Gould Birds Austral. V. pl. 19 Yellow-collared Parrakeet... It often utters a note, which from its resemblance to those words has procured for it the appellation of ‘twenty-eight’ Parrakeet from the colonists. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online March 2018). < n.1848 |
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