英语词汇“thick、knee”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组、英语词典-本地帮

单词

thick-knee

释义

thick-knee|ˈθɪkniː|
Also thicknee.
A name for any bird of the genus Œdicnemus, esp. the Stone Curlew, Norfolk or Great Plover, Œ. scolopax (Œ. crepitans, Temminck); so called from the enlargement of the tibio-tarsal joint.
1816Leach Cat. Mamm. & B. in Brit. Mus. 28 Fedoa Œdicnemus Common thicknee, Wiltshire.1840Penny Cycl. XVI. 402/1 The..Thick-knee, Thick-kneed Bustard.1866Owen Vertebr. Anim. xiv. II. 26 The ‘Thick-knees’..and Bustards..have the four-notched sternum.1896List Anim. Zool. Soc. 520 Œdicnemus grallarius, Australian Thicknee... Œ. superciliaris, Peruvian Thicknee.
So ˈthick-ˌkneed a., having thick knees; esp. in thick-kneed bustard or thick-kneed plover, the Stone Curlew.
1776Pennant Zool. (ed. 4) I. 244 Bustard, thick-kneed.1840[see thick-knee].1893Newton Dict. Birds 129 The Curlew of inlanders, or Stone-Curlew—called also..most wrongly..the Thick-knee or Thick-kneed Bustard.

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