“plover's page”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

plover's page

释义

plover-page, plover's page Sc.
[f. prec. + page n.¹]
The dunlin (Tringa alpina), which is said to attend or follow the golden plover; applied also to other species of Tringa, and to the Jack Snipe (Limnocryptes gallinula).
1837R. Dunn Ornith. Orkney & Shetl. 86 Scolopax Gallinula...Plover Page. Jack Snipe. Judcock.1861Zoologist XIX. 7342 All the Tringas are called locally ‘plover pages’.1887A. C. Smith Birds Wilts. 438 It is..said that a solitary Dunlin will attach itself to a solitary Golden Plover: and this strange notion has extended to the Hebrides, where from its habit of associating with those birds, it is called the ‘Plover's Page’.

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