单词 | tooth-billed |
释义 | tooth-billed, a. Ornith.|ˈtuːθbɪld| [See billed.] Having one or more tooth-like projections on the edge of the bill; dentirostral or serratirostral. tooth-billed bower-bird, a rare Australian bower-bird, Scenopœus dentirostris. tooth-billed pigeon, Didunculus strigirostris, of the Samoan Islands.
1862Wood Illustr. Nat. Hist. II. 593 Tooth-billed Pigeon... The whole contour of the Tooth-bill is remarkable. 1872Coues N. Amer. Birds 223 Didunculidæ consists of the only less singular tooth-billed pigeon, Didunculus strigirostris. 1905Westm. Gaz. 18 Nov. 7/2 The didunculus, or tooth-billed pigeon,..if native accounts are to be believed,..has only saved itself from extinction by changing its habits in one of the islands. |

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