英语词汇“rice、bird”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组、英语词典-本地帮

单词

rice-bird

释义

rice-bird
[rice n.²]
†1. An East Indian bird (see quot.). Obs.
1704in Churchill's Voy. II. 357/1 The Rice-Bird is of the bigness of one of our Pullets,..with brown feathers on the Body, a red Head, and very large Claws; they live among the Rice.
2. The Paddy bird or Java sparrow.
1743Edwards Nat. Hist. Birds I. i. 41 The Cock Padda or Rice-Bird..is about the Size of a Green-Finch, or rather bigger.1777Forster Voy. round World II. 568 Rice⁓birds, commonly called paddies (loxia oryzivora).1841Penny Cycl. XIX. 500/2. 1904 Blackw. Mag. Jan. 243 Java sparrows, rice-birds, and those squawking mynahs.
3. U.S. Any of several small birds found in rice-fields, esp. the bobolink, Dolichonyx oryzivorus.
1731M. Catesby Nat. Hist. Carolina I. 14 The Rice-bird..[is] esteemed in Carolina the greatest delicacy of all other Birds.1747Phil. Trans. XLIV. 438 Flights of Rice-Birds..go to Carolina annually at the time Rice begins to ripen; and, after growing fat with it, return South back again.1769Bancroft Guiana 178 The Rice Bird of Guiana has a bill like the former,..and is of nearly the same size.1832Veg. Subst. Food Man 94 The cultivators of rice in America..suffer..from the depredations of the rice-bird.1884Harper's Mag. Mar. 620/1 The mouse-hawk..interrupts the flocks of bobolinks or rice-birds in their depredations.1957O. Breland Animal Friends & Foes ii. 70 Robins, meadowlarks, bobolinks, and even flickers were often served in restaurants as ‘rice birds’.1958S. A. Grau Hard Blue Sky 17 A yellow and black ricebird whizzed over his head.

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