“tree、goose”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

tree-goose

释义

ˈtree-goose Obs. exc. Hist.
A name for the barnacle-goose, formerly believed to be produced from a tree, in the form of the barnacle (cirriped): see barnacle n.² 1.
1597Gerarde Herbal iii. clxvii. 1391 Foules whom we call Barnakles,..and in Lancashire tree Geese.1622Drayton Poly-olb. xxvii. 304 Those..trees..send from their stocky bough, A soft and sappy Gum, from which those Tree-geese grow, Call'd Barnacles by vs.1655H. More Antid. Ath. App. xiii. §5 He also adds a story of another sort of Tree-geese which he gathered in their shells from an old rotten tree upon the shore of our English Coast.1768Pennant Zool. II. 452 These are the birds that..were believed to be generated out of wood, or rather a species of shell..often found sticking to the bottoms of ships,..and were called Tree-geese.1835Penny Cycl. IV. 312/2.

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