“butcher、bird”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

butcher-bird

释义

ˈbutcher-ˌbird
[f. butcher n. + bird n. (see quot. 1802): Cf. F. bouchari ‘un des noms vulgaires de la pie-grièche.’ Littré.]
A name given to several species of shrike (Laniadæ): Lanius excubitor, L. tertius, L. cinereus, etc.
1668Wilkins Real Char. 146 Lanius or Butcher bird, is of three several kinds.1674Ray Eng. Birds Coll. 82 The great Butcher-bird called in the Peak of Derbyshire Wirrangle, Lanius cinereus major.1679Plot Staffordsh. (1686) 229 The Butcher-bird or Wierangel, here called the Shreek or French-Pye.1802Paley Nat. Theol. xii. 109 The butcher-bird transfixes its prey upon the spike of a thorn, whilst it picks its bones.1846Gard. Chron. 517 The red-backed shrike or butcher-bird.

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