| 单词 | winter range |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswinter range winter range n. (a) U.S. (a piece of) grazing land used by livestock in winter; (b) Biology the geographical area within which a migratory species occurs during winter; cf. summer range n. (b) at summer n.1 and adj. Compounds 3. ΚΠ 1822 Amer. Missionary Reg. May 432/1 Their object..is to provide themselves with wood and water, and winter range. 1837 Rep. Brit. Assoc. Advancem. Sci. 1836 192 South Carolina is stated by the Rev. Mr. Bachman to be the most northerly winter range of the last-mentioned bird. 1948 E. N. Wentworth America's Sheep Trails xviii. 399/2 The ewes and cutback lambs..trailed back to..the winter range. 1987 J. DuFresne Glacier Bay National Park ii. 29 Arctic terns..travel 20,000 miles each year back and forth from their winter range in the southern hemisphere. 2002 Washington Post Mag. (Nexis) 19 May w10 My maternal uncles..were about to drive 2,000 sheep from the exhausted grass of their winter range 100 miles to fresh grass in the Bighorn Mountains. < as lemmas |
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