| 单词 | whooping crane |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswhooping crane whooping crane n. a large crane of marshes and wetlands in North America, Grus americana, the adult of which has largely white plumage, with a red crown and black wing tips, and a loud bugle-like call; cf. whooper n. 1c.In early use, the brown juvenile was sometimes confused with the sandhill crane, Antigone canadensis. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Gruiformes > [noun] > family Gruidae (cranes) > member of genus Grus > grus americana (whooping crane) whooping crane1731 savannah crane?a1775 1731 M. Catesby Nat. Hist. Carolina I. iv. Pl. 75 The hooping Crane is about the Size of the common Crane. ?a1775 W. Bartram Trav. Georgia & Florida in Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. (1943) 33 148/1 The Sonorrous Stork & Whooping Crains proclaim the near approaches of the Summers heats. 1830 M. Donovan Domest. Econ. II. iii. 137 The brown crane and hooping crane are both edible species. 1879 N. H. Bishop Four Months in Sneak-box 108 Whooping-cranes..in little flocks, dotted the grassy prairies. 1976 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 7 May 10/6 A scraggly-looking whooping crane chick, hatched this week at the government wildlife centre here. 2014 @AngelaCarter19 12 Jan. in twitter.com (accessed 17 July 2020) Got the grill going! Fire starting to burn, listening to the hooping cranes flying over. < as lemmas |
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