单词 | wing feather |
释义 | > as lemmaswing feather (a) In sense 1 (in reference to parts, structure, or function), as wing area, wing-beat, wing-bone, wing feather, wing flight, wing-length, wing membrane, wing neuration, wing patch, wing pattern, wing pinion, wing power, wing quill, wing ray, wing shoulder, wing-span, wing-spread, wing vein. ΚΠ 1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis iv. 70 Furth she quicklye galops, with wingflight swallolyke hastning. 1673 Gentlewomans Compan. 114 Put under the wing-Pinions on each side the long slices of flesh which you did cut from the Breast-bone. 1704 J. Petiver Gazophylacii III. 37 Its Belly, Wing-shoulders, Collar, and about the Eyes white. 1752 J. Hill Gen. Nat. Hist. III. 343 The exterior wing~feathers are black. 1815 J. F. Stephens Shaw's Gen. Zool. IX. i. 3 Interior wing-quills externally margined. 1826 G. Samouelle Gen. Direct. collecting Exotic Insects & Crustacea 37 The Pterigostia or wing-bones, hairy. 1837 Penny Cycl. VII. 25/1 It [sc. a bat] hybernates..snugly wrapped up in the wing-membranes. 1856 Zoologist 14 5157 The wing-veins of insects. 1856 Zoologist 14 5195 The Wing-rays of Insects. 1872 E. Coues Key to N. Amer. Birds 100 Wing-patch resolved into two bars. 1872 E. Coues Key to N. Amer. Birds 174 When very young, the wing-markings more fulvous. 1893 A. Newton et al. Dict. Birds: Pt. 1 269 Those..which can soar are mostly large birds, with a relatively large wing~area. 1897 ‘N. Blanchan’ Bird Neighbors 143 Bank Swallow... About an inch shorter than the English sparrow, but apparently much larger because of its wide wing-spread. 1902 Spectator 26 July 112 The wing-power of the dragon-flies. 1909 Westm. Gaz. 2 Nov. 2/3 For wing-beats of great angels we would hear the herdsman's call. 1910 Encycl. Brit. XIII. 432/1 Orthopteroid wing-neuration. 1911 Encycl. Brit. XVI. 469/1 The darkening of wing-patterns in many species of Lepidoptera. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xv. [Circe] 485 Head askew, arches his back and hunched wingshoulders. 1927 Daily Express 31 Aug. 8/3 It..is shaped like the wing-bone of a chicken. 1943 A. Clarke Coll. Plays (1963) 173 This big wind that filled My wingbones blew me into the trees. 1946 Nature 21 Dec. 904/1 The accompanying table shows..the weight in kgm. and wing-length in cm. of the female. 1949 Brit. Birds 42 187 The wing-span was found to measure nearly four feet, and the length was 21 inches. 1957 New Yorker 13 July 22/2 We got over six hundred bats, from insectivorous ones with an eight-inch wingspread to fruit eaters with a five-foot wingspread. 1971 Sci. Amer. Dec. 79/3 For aerodynamic reasons large birds have a slow wingbeat. 1977 P. Way Super-Celeste 123 The skull and upper bones of the [eagle's] wingspan had.. driven like a cannon ball into the pilot's belly. < as lemmas |
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