“spine、tail”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

spine-tail

释义

spine-tail
[spine n.¹]
1. Ornith. One or other of several birds of unrelated genera characterized by their stiff, spine-like or mucronate tail-feathers.
1839Audubon Syn. Birds N. Amer. 33 Chætura, Spine-tail.Ibid., Chætura pelasgia, American Spine-tail.c1880Cassell's Nat. Hist. IV. 111 The third family of the Mesomyodi, or Songless Birds, the Spine-tails (Dendrocolaptidæ).1890Cent. Dict., Orthonyx, a remarkable Australian genus of passerine birds; the spinetails.1891Ibid., Spine-tail, the ruddy duck, Erismatura rubida.1893W. H. Hudson La Plata 371 Small Spine-tail [Synallaxis phryganophila] and Nest.
b. attrib. in spine-tail grouse, spine-tail swift.
1884Coues N. Amer. Birds 457 Chæturinæ, Spine-tail Swifts.Ibid. 580 Centrocercus,..Spine-tail Grouse.
2. Ichth. (See quots.)
1851Gosse Nat. Hist., Fishes 147 Teuthididæ. (Spine-tails.)Ibid. 148 In form and general appearance the Spine-tails resemble the Chætodons.

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