单词 | turdoid |
释义 | turdoidadj. Ornithology. Now rare. Belonging to a group of passerine families comprising the thrushes (family Turdidae) and related birds, sometimes regarded as constituting a superfamily Turdoidea. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > family Muscicapidae (thrushes, etc.) > subfamily Turdinae > [adjective] turdine1773 turdoid1872 1872 E. Coues Key to N. Amer. Birds 261 A large family of chiefly Old World birds, mainly represented in America by the genera Regulus and Polioptila. They belong to the Turdoid series. 1874 A. R. Wallace in Ibis Oct. 409 Typical or Turdoid Passeres. Wing with 10 primaries. 1984 Auk 101 239/1 The sylvioid-fringilloid clade branched from the turdoid clade about 50 mybp. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1872 |
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