| 单词 | buffalo-bird |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbuffalo-bird buffalo-bird n. an insessorial bird ( Textor erythrorhynchus) which accompanies herds of buffaloes in South Africa. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > larger song birds > [noun] > family Sturnidae > genus Buphagus (ox-pecker) rhinoceros bird1822 beefeater1836 oxpecker1837 tick-bird1850 buffalo-bird1857 ox-biter1885 tick-eater1903 cow-picker1915 1857 D. Livingstone Missionary Trav. S. Afr. xxvii. 545 Buffalo-birds act the part of guardian spirits to the animals. 1857 D. Livingstone Missionary Trav. S. Afr. (1861) 357 The leader of the herd was an old cow, carrying on her withers about twenty buffalo-birds. < as lemmas |
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