单词 | umbre |
释义 | umbren. An African bird ( Scopus umbretta) with deep-brown plumage; the hammerhead or African crow. (Cf. umbrette n.) ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Ciconiiformes (storks, etc.) > [noun] > family Scopidae (hammer-head) umbre1773 hamerkop1834 shadow-bird1869 umbrette1884 hammer-head1890 1773 T. Pennant Genera of Birds 44 Umbre. Bill, strong, thick, strait, compressed, the upper mandible composed of several pieces. 1785 J. Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds III. i. 30 Tufted Umbre... Size of a Crow... The bill is three inches and a half in length. 1819 J. F. Stephens Shaw's Gen. Zool. XI. ii. 636 Crested Umbre, with the whole body fuscous. 1848 S. Maunder Treasury Nat. Hist. 716/1 The Crested Umbre (Scopus umbretta)..is..of an umber colour, and the male is crested. 1890 Sat. Rev. 1 Feb. 139/2 The umbre..feeds upon fish and frogs, worms, snails, and insects. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1773 |
随便看 |
英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。