| 单词 | yellow-bill |
| 释义 | > as lemmasyellow-bill yellow-bill n. any of various birds with a yellow bill or yellow markings on the bill; cf. yellow-billed adj. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > unspecified and miscellaneous birds > [noun] > miscellaneous night-raveneOE cold-finch1676 crane1678 diver1694 solitary1708 wheat-bird1747 yellow-bill1775 Chinese thrush1781 whidah thrush1781 tomtit1789 solitaire1797 year-bird1798 softbill1830 swift-shrike1841 scissor bird1843 seed finch1862 sea-flyer1869 stalker1872 seven sisters1873 dicky bird1879 baboon bird1883 1775 J. Cook Jrnl. 17 Jan. (1969) II. 622 The Oceanic birds were Albatross,..Shags, Divers, the New White Bird and a small Duck such as are at the Cape of Good Hope and known by the name of Yellow-bills. 1865 P. H. Gosse Land & Sea 321 Yonder floats by a flock of Parrots with a most abominable combination of harsh screams. It is the Yellow-bill. 1977 G. M. Sutton Fifty Common Birds Okla. 12 Both the Yellow-bill and Black-bill are confirmed eaters of caterpillars. 2008 A. Jarrett Wildfowler's Year iv. 35 There were a lot of duck there—mostly yellow-bills, but with a sprinkling of shoveler and red-billed teal and a mass of coots thrown in. < as lemmas |
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