cross‐billの英語

語源

From cross +‎ bill.

発音

• IPA: /ˈkɹɒsbɪl/

名詞

crossbill (plural crossbills)

1. Any of various finches of the genus Loxia, whose bill crosses over at the tips; they are specialist feeders on conifer cones.
2. (law) A bill brought by a defendant, in an equity or chancery suit, against the plaintiff, respecting the matter in question in that suit.
   • 1836, Edward Burtenshaw Sugden, A Practical Treatise of the Law of Vendors and Purchasers of Estates:

     he not having the money ready […] filed a bill for a specific performance, evidently to gain time. The vendors filed a crossbill; and afterwards the purchaser became a bankrupt

下位語

• common crossbill, Loxia curvirostra
• Hispaniolan crossbill, Loxia megaplaga
• parrot crossbill, Loxia pytyopsittacus
• red crossbill, Loxia curvirostra
• Scottish crossbill, Loxia scotica
• Cassia crossbill, Loxia sinesciuris
• two-barred crossbill, Loxia leucoptera

  two-barred crossbill, Loxia leucoptera bifasciata

• white-winged crossbill, Loxia leucoptera

  white-winged crossbill, Loxia leucoptera leucoptera