| 单词 |
hen-hawk |
| 释义 |
ˈhen-hawk Ornith. A name given in U.S. to various species of hawks or buzzards, esp. to the Red-tailed and Red-shouldered hawks, Buteo borealis and B. lineatus. blue hen-hawk, the adult American goshawk.
1806W. Clark in Lewis & Clark Orig. Jrnls. (1905) IV. 131, I have observed..a hawk of an intermediate size with a long tail and blewish coloured wings, remarkably swift in flight and very ferce. Sometimes called in the Un. States the hen Hawk. 1819D. Thomas Trav. W. Country 210 The Hen-Hawk is not very numerous. 1855Longfellow Hiaw. xiv. 116 Crane and hen-hawk, And the cormorant. 1860Bartlett Dict. Amer., Hen-hawk (Falco lineatus), the popular name of the Red-shouldered Hawk of naturalists. 1884Roe Nat. Ser. Story iv, The American goshawk is the dreaded blue hen hawk of New England. |

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