white-rumpedadj.

Brit.

/ˈwʌɪtrʌmpt/, U.S.

/ˈ(h)waɪtˌrəmpt/

Forms: see white adj. and n. and rumped adj.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: white adj., rumped adj.

Etymology: < white adj. + rumped adj.

Having a white rump or lower back; (also) having white upper tail coverts. Frequently in names of birds and other animals.

ΚΠ

1771 J. R. Forster Catal. Animals N. Amer. 9 Falcon..White-rump'd. F. Hudsonius.

1793 J. Leslie tr. Comte de Buffon Nat. Hist. Birds IX. 439 The White-rumped Woodpecker, Picus Obscurus; from North America.

1848 S. Maunder Treasury Nat. Hist. 659/1 I discovered a bird clinging to one of these masses, which I shot, and found to be this white-rumped Swift.

1879 Nature 10 Apr. 545/1 Two White-rumped Roe Deer (Capreolus pygargus) from eastern Asia.

1910 Proc. Davenport (Iowa) Acad. Sci. 17 339 The White-rumped Shrike is reported by observers as a tolerably common summer resident in all parts of the state.

1967 Life 22 Dec. 82 The rare banteng, a species of wild cattle, feed on brush and grass. They are white-legged and white-rumped.

2012 T. Utinski Divine Play 125 The pool was populated by sunglassed glitterati..posing beneath umbrellaed tables, and by naked white-rumped bathers.

Compounds

white-rumped sandpiper n. a small migratory sandpiper having brown and white plumage with white upper tail coverts, Calidris fuscicollis, which breeds in arctic regions of Canada and winters in South America.

ΚΠ

1868 E. Coues in Proc. Essex Inst. 5 294 Actodromas Bonapartei Cass.—Bonaparte's Sandpiper. White-rumped Sandpiper.

1927 Our Migrant Shorebirds Southern S. Amer. (U.S. Dept. Agric.; Techn. Bull. No. 26) 9 The white-rumped sandpiper (Pisobia fuscicollis) is to-day the most common of the migrant North American shorebirds in Argentina.

2004 Auk 121 784/1 Incubation attentiveness also increases as a function of wind speed in White-rumped Sandpipers (Calidris fuscicollis).

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2015; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	white-rumped
释义	white-rumpedadj. Brit. /ˈwʌɪtrʌmpt/, U.S. /ˈ(h)waɪtˌrəmpt/ Forms: see white adj. and n. and rumped adj. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: white adj., rumped adj. Etymology: < white adj. + rumped adj. Having a white rump or lower back; (also) having white upper tail coverts. Frequently in names of birds and other animals. ΚΠ 1771 J. R. Forster Catal. Animals N. Amer. 9 Falcon..White-rump'd. F. Hudsonius. 1793 J. Leslie tr. Comte de Buffon Nat. Hist. Birds IX. 439 The White-rumped Woodpecker, Picus Obscurus; from North America. 1848 S. Maunder Treasury Nat. Hist. 659/1 I discovered a bird clinging to one of these masses, which I shot, and found to be this white-rumped Swift. 1879 Nature 10 Apr. 545/1 Two White-rumped Roe Deer (Capreolus pygargus) from eastern Asia. 1910 Proc. Davenport (Iowa) Acad. Sci. 17 339 The White-rumped Shrike is reported by observers as a tolerably common summer resident in all parts of the state. 1967 Life 22 Dec. 82 The rare banteng, a species of wild cattle, feed on brush and grass. They are white-legged and white-rumped. 2012 T. Utinski Divine Play 125 The pool was populated by sunglassed glitterati..posing beneath umbrellaed tables, and by naked white-rumped bathers. Compounds white-rumped sandpiper n. a small migratory sandpiper having brown and white plumage with white upper tail coverts, Calidris fuscicollis, which breeds in arctic regions of Canada and winters in South America. ΚΠ 1868 E. Coues in Proc. Essex Inst. 5 294 Actodromas Bonapartei Cass.—Bonaparte's Sandpiper. White-rumped Sandpiper. 1927 Our Migrant Shorebirds Southern S. Amer. (U.S. Dept. Agric.; Techn. Bull. No. 26) 9 The white-rumped sandpiper (Pisobia fuscicollis) is to-day the most common of the migrant North American shorebirds in Argentina. 2004 Auk 121 784/1 Incubation attentiveness also increases as a function of wind speed in White-rumped Sandpipers (Calidris fuscicollis). This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2015; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1771
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