单词 | motacilla |
释义 | ‖ motacilla|məʊtəˈsɪlə| [L. mōtacilla wagtail, perh. f. mōtāre to keep moving; according to Varro so called ‘quod semper movet caudam’; cf. the Eng. name.] A genus of birds, now restricted to the wagtails, but formerly of wider extent; a bird of this genus.
1752J. Hill Hist. Anim. 505 The Motacilla, with a black breast. The common Wagtail. 1808A. Wilson Amer. Ornithol. (1831) I. 256, I saw him..pursuing what I took to be a species of motacilla. Hence motaˈcillid, -ine, -oid adjs., belonging to or resembling the family Motacillidæ or the sub-family Motacillinæ, of which the genus Motacilla is the type. (In recent Dicts.) |

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