| 单词 | water crow |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswater crow water crow n. any of various waterbirds, esp. (a) the Eurasian coot (now rare, English regional (northern), and Scottish); †(b) a cormorant (cf. water raven n.) (obsolete); (c) the European dipper, Cinclus cinclus (now rare, English regional (chiefly northern), and Scottish); (d) U.S. regional the snakebird, Anhinga anhinga (now rare). [With sense (c) compare post-classical Latin cornix aquatica (1585 in Gesner, or earlier); compare earlier water crake n. and water ouzel n.] ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Gruiformes > [noun] > family Rallidae (rail) > genus Fulica > fulica atra (coot) bald-coota1300 water crowa1398 cootc1440 bell-kitea1525 devil1580 the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > non-arboreal (larks, etc.) > [noun] > family Cinclidae > cinclus aquaticus (dipper) dippera1425 water ouzel1622 waterthrush1668 water crake1676 water blackbird1678 piet1804 water crow1804 water-piet1804 water cock1806 ducker1837 dipper-bird1894 a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. v. xl. 249 Som foules hauen galle priueiliche ihid in a gut, as culueres and watircrowes [L. conturnices] and swalewis. 1538 T. Elyot Dict. Phalacrocorax,..a water crowe, it maye signifie a coote. 1544 W. Turner Avium Præcipuarum sig. B3 Morpetenses, apud quos auem uidi, cornicem vocant aquaticam. [margin] a water craw. 1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia 146 The Water Crow may be reduced hither, the skinne of which is used to be worne upon the stomach, causing concoction. 1774 J. Robinson Journey through Nova-Scotia 28 They have eagles, gleads, hawks, buzzards, ravens, and water-crows; but neither sparrows, mountain-larks, cuckows, or rooks. 1804 T. Bewick Hist. Brit. Birds II. 16 (heading) Water Ouzel. Water Crow, Dipper, or Water Piot. 1859 New Amer. Cycl. VI. 271/1 This bird [sc. Plotus anhinga] is a constant resident in Florida, and the lower parts of Louisiana, Alabama, and Georgia... In these various localities it goes by the names of water crow, Grecian lady, and cormorant. 1876 C. C. Robinson Gloss. Words Dial. Mid-Yorks. 153/1 Water-crow, the coote or water-hen. 1900 C. Dixon Among Birds Northern Shires 18 It is somewhat curious to find that the local name of Water-crow has been applied to this bird [sc. the dipper] not only in Cornwall but almost universally in Scotland. 2007 R. Lovegrove Silent Fields vi. 145 At Market Weighton..307 Dippers (‘water crakes’ and ‘water crows’ were the colloquial names in that part of northern England) were killed. < as lemmas |
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