blue-black grosbeak

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词形变化

blue-black grosbeaks 复数

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Any bird of the species Cyanoloxia cyanoides, a deep blue and black-colored cardinalid found from southern Mexico down to northern South America.

词源

From blue + black + grosbeak, possibly a partial calque of translingual Cyanoloxia cyanoides (or the synonyms thereof), using the specific epithet of cyanoides (“like cyan”), from κῠ́ᾰνος (kŭ́ănos, “dark blue”), though improbable.

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