单词 | cassique |
释义 | cassiquen.ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > non-arboreal (larks, etc.) > [noun] > family Mimidae > other types of cassiquea1618 catbird1732 a1618 W. Raleigh Apol. Voy. Guiana 46 in Judicious & Sel. Ess. (1650) The Mynes which the Cassique Carapana offered them. 2. Any of numerous passerine birds of the genus Cacicus (family Icteridae); = cacique n. Additions. ΚΠ 1825 C. Waterton Wanderings in S. Amer. (1887) ii. 167 The Cassique is gregarious..he goes by no other name than that of mocking-bird amongst the colonists. 1826 S. Smith in Wks. (1859) II. 78 The cassique, in size, is larger than the starling; he courts the society of man. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < n.a1618 |
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