| 单词 | whooping swan |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswhooping swan whooping swan n. the whooper swan, Cygnus cygnus; = whooper n. 1a. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Anseriformes (geese, etc.) > subfamily Cyginae (swans) > [noun] > member of genus Cygnus (miscellaneous) > cygnus cygnus (whooper) elk1552 whooper1553 whistling swan1785 whooping swan1802 trumpeter swan1842 trumpeter1891 1802 G. Montagu Ornithol. Dict. Introd. p. xxiii The singular flexure in the windpipe of the Hooping Swan and Crane. 1837 C. F. Partington Brit. Cycl. Nat. Hist. III. 742/2 Those who assert that it [sc. the white (mute) swan] has been bred out of the whooping swan, maintain..that one species of animal may, in a state of nature, and without any interference of art, originate another and different species. 1926 Auk 43 224 Three species of Swan occur in Denmark, of which Bewick's and the Whooping Swan are regular winter residents and the Mute Swan a breeding as well as a winter bird. 2019 Daily Mirror (N. Ireland ed.) (Nexis) 29 Nov. 20 Mr Murphy said the road would cut through the feeding fields of wintering whooping swans and destroy the Lough Beg wetland. < as lemmas |
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