“dowitcher”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

dowitcher

释义

dowitcher|ˈdaʊɪtʃə(r)|
[Iroquois.]
Any of several long-billed waders (genus Limnodromus) of North America, belonging to the family Scolopacidæ and resembling the sandpiper, esp. the red-breasted snipe (Limnodromus griseus).
1841Spirit of Times 9 Jan. 529/3 The mellow attenuated trill of the soaring dowitcher.1872Coues Key N. Amer. Birds 252 Brown-back. Dowitcher.1888Lees & Clutterbuck B.C. 1887 xvii. 182 The long-billed dowitchers are very much like a large snipe, of a pale cinnamon colour.1934I. W. Hutchison North to Rime-Ringed Sun xiii. 136 They had been shot..and were Dowitchers, a species of Arctic wildfowl.1965New Scientist 21 Oct. 163/3 Sandpiper-like American waders such as..the dowitchers..form a substantial proportion of the incomers.

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