| 单词 | white-tailed ptarmigan |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswhite-tailed ptarmigan a. In full white-tailed ptarmigan. A grouse of the Rocky Mountains, L. leucurus, that resembles L. muta but has a white tail. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > family Tetraonidae (grouse) > [noun] > genus Lagopus > lagopus leucurus (white-tailed ptarmigan) white-tailed ptarmigan1834 ptarmigan1858 snow-quail1895 1858 S. F. Baird Birds (U.S. War Dept.: Rep. Explor. Route Pacific IX) ii. 636 (heading) in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (33rd Congr., 2nd Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc. 91) White-tailed ptarmigan. 1886 Outing Dec. 201/1 A small covey of ptarmigan (mountain grouse) whirred up and settled at such provokingly short distance that I could not resist a couple of shots. 1917 Birds of Amer. II. 23/2 In few birds is protective coloration exhibited to such an extent as in these Ptarmigans that live along ‘the top of the world’. 1961 W. P. Keller Canada's Wild Glory iv. 198 Of our North American birds none has ever quite gripped my fancy like the white-tailed ptarmigan of our mountains. 1996 J. Updike In Beauty of Lilies 470 The shrouded vast realm of the mountain lion and grizzly bear,..the white-tailed ptarmigan and bald eagle. white-tailed ptarmigan white-tailed ptarmigan n. [compare scientific Latin leucurus, specific name (1831)] a ptarmigan of mountainous regions of western North America, Lagopus leucura, which retains a white tail and underparts in its otherwise brownish summer plumage. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > family Tetraonidae (grouse) > [noun] > genus Lagopus > lagopus leucurus (white-tailed ptarmigan) white-tailed ptarmigan1834 ptarmigan1858 snow-quail1895 1834 W. Jardine Nat. Hist. Gallinaceous Birds (Naturalist's Libr.: Ornithol. IV) II. 174 White-tailed Ptarmigan..is at once distinguished from any of the rest by the want of black on the pure winter plumage. 1918 J. Muir Steep Trails xxii. 326 The white-tailed ptarmigan lives on the lofty snow peaks above the timber. 2013 Daily Camera (Boulder, Colorado) (Nexis) 27 Nov. If you're ski touring..in the mountains, watch for weasels, snowshoe hares and white-tailed ptarmigan, all of which have changed to winter whites. < as lemmas |
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