| 单词 |
cirl |
| 释义 |
cirl|sɜːl| [Introduced by Latham 1783, to render Linnæus's name Emberiza Cirlus; Cirlus having been the name used by Aldrovandi (1600, Orn. II. 855), as a latinized form of cirlo ‘name applied by the Bolognese to the Zigolo nero’; probably from zirlare to whistle as a thrush. See Count Salvatori, Elenco degli Uccelli Italiani (1887) 163.] In cirl bunting: the name of a species of bunting, Emberiza Cirlus.
[1688R. Holme Armoury ii. 246/2 The Cirlus [hath] the Bill thick and short. ]1783Latham Gen. Synops. Birds II. 190. 1802 Montagu Ornith. Dict. s.v. Bunting, Cirl. 1812Pennant Zool. I. 438 The discovery of the Cirl Bunting, as a British bird..in Devonshire in..1800. 1829Jrnl. Naturalist 157 Mr. Montagu's failure in being able to raise the young of the cirl bunting, until he discovered that they required grasshoppers. |

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