“grey-hen”的英文意思

单词

grey-hen

释义

grey-hen|ˈgreɪhɛn|
The female of the Black Grouse (Tetrao tetrix), the heath-hen. (The male is called the blackcock.)
1427in Balfour's Practicks (1754) 542 Wyld foulis, sic as pertrikis, pluveris, black cockis, gray hennis.1618Naworth Househ. Bks. (Surtees) 79, 2 gray hens.1787G. White Selborne vi. (1789) 16 Within these last ten years one solitary grey hen was sprung by some beagles in beating for a hare.1893Newton Dict. Birds 393 Tetrao tetrix—the Blackcock and Greyhen, as the sexes are with us respectively called.

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