| 单词 | wing-coverts |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswing-coverts 5. Ornithology in plural. Feathers that cover the bases of the larger feathers on some particular part of the body, e.g. tail-coverts, wing-coverts, esp. the latter. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > feather > [noun] > covering base of large feathers (collective) covert-feather1575 cover-feather1769 covert1774 coverture1861 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth III. vii. xiii The coverts of the wings are of a deep blackish green. 1797 R. Beilby & T. Bewick Hist. Brit. Birds I. 290 The middle coverts deep blue, glossed with green and gold. 1825 C. Waterton Wanderings in S. Amer. ii. ii. 179 The great coverts of the wings are stiff, narrow and pointed. 1834 R. Mudie Feathered Tribes Brit. Islands I. 8 The ear covert..consists of certain feathers that cover the external organ of hearing. 1835–6 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. I. 351/1 The feathers which lie immediately over the quill-feathers are the ‘greater coverts’..The small feathers..upon the bones of the antebrachium..the ‘lesser coverts’. 1875 ‘Stonehenge’ Man. Brit. Rural Sports (ed. 12) i. i. iv. §1. 73 The wing-coverts are brownish, with the greater coverts white. < as lemmas |
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