| 单词 | yellowshank snipe |
| 释义 | > as lemmasyellowshank snipe yellowshank n. (also yellowshanks) (more fully yellowshank snipe) either of two North American migratory sandpipers, the greater yellowlegs ( Totanus melanoleucus) and lesser yellowlegs ( T. flavipes), having long, thin, dark beaks, long yellow legs, and a grey-brown body with dark markings and pale underparts; cf. yellow leg n. 1.Also preceded by greater or lesser to distinguish the species. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Scolopacidae (snipes, etc.) > [noun] > member of genus Tringa > tringa flavipes (yellow-legs) yellow-legged plover1778 yellowshank1785 telltale1813 yellow leg1889 the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Scolopacidae (snipes, etc.) > [noun] > member of genus Tringa > tringa melanoleuca stone-snipe1785 yellowshank1785 telltale1813 turkey-back1888 yellow leg1889 1785 T. Pennant Arctic Zool. II. ii. 468 Yellow-shanks Sn [ipe] . With a slender black bill. 1835 J. J. Audubon Ornithol. Biogr. III. 573 The Yellowshank is much more abundant..to the westward of the Alleghany Mountains than along our Atlantic coast. 1892 Ann. Rep. Minnesota State Hort. Soc. 20 365 Flock of Yellow-shank Snipe seen. 1948 Irish Naturalists' Jrnl. 9 146 I took it to the National Museum, Dublin, where it was recognised as a Greater Yellowshank, Tringa melanoleuca. 2001 D. W. Nellis Common Coastal Birds Florida & Caribbean 227/1 Other English common names include common yellowlegs, little tell-tale, lesser yellowshanks, yellow-legged plover, and little stone-bird. < as lemmas |
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