crocodile
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Egyptian plover (Pluvianus aegyptius)
5 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Relation type | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Motivation | |
| language | English | |
| lexeme 1 | crocodile + bird | |
| lexeme 2 | crocodile bird | |
| meaning 1 | crocodile + bird | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | Egyptian plover (Pluvianus aegyptius) | |
| reference | Merriam-Webster | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Derivation | |
| language | Portuguese | |
| lexeme 1 | crocodilo + ave | |
| lexeme 2 | ave-do-crocodilo | |
| meaning 1 | crocodile + bird | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | Egyptian plover (Pluvianus aegyptius) | |
| reference | <personally collected data> | |
| comment | https://ebird.org/species/egyplo1?siteLanguage=pt_BR |
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| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Derivation | |
| language | Romanian | |
| lexeme 1 | crocodil + pasăre | |
| lexeme 2 | pasărea crocodilului | |
| meaning 1 | crocodile + bird | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | Egyptian plover (Pluvianus aegyptius) | |
| reference | <personally collected data> | |
| comment | Enciclopedie ilustrată. Păsările lumii, Editura Aquila, 2009. |
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| ACCEPTED Realization 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Derivation | |
| language | Russian | |
| lexeme 1 | крокодил + сторож | |
| lexeme 2 | крокодилов сторож | |
| meaning 1 | crocodile + watchman, guard, custodian | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | Egyptian plover (Pluvianus aegyptius) | |
| reference | <personally collected data> | |
| comment | Жизнь животных. Том 6. Птицы / под ред. В. Д. Ильичева, И. В. Михеева, гл. ред. В. Е. Соколов. — 2-е изд. — М.: Просвещение, 1986. — С. 243. |
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| ACCEPTED Realization 5 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Motivation | |
| language | Turkish | |
| lexeme 1 | timsah + bekçi | |
| lexeme 2 | timsahbekçisi | |
| meaning 1 | crocodile + warder, guardian | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | Egyptian plover (Pluvianus aegyptius) | |
| reference | Baskakov 1977: 863 | |
| comment | ||
The name based on the belief that the species had a symbiotic relationship with crocodiles.] According to Herodotus, the crocodiles lie on the shore with their mouths open and a bird called "Trochilus" (τροχίλος) flies into the crocodiles' mouths so as to feed on decaying meat lodged between the crocodiles' teeth (Hdt. 2.68.4–5., also Aristot. Hist. Anim. 8.5.7, 9.7.3., Plin. Nat. 8.37.). The identification of the Trochilus with any particular plover is doubtful and the cleaning symbiosis itself has never been documented by video or photographic evidence.
Illustration by Henry Scherren (Popular Natural History, 1909) / Public domaine
Howell, Thomas R. (1979). Breeding Biology of the Egyptian Plover Pluvianus aegyptius. University of California Publications in Zoology: 113. Berkeley, California: University of California Press. pp. 4–5.
MacFarland, Craig G.; Reeder, W. G. (1974). "Cleaning symbiosis involving Galapagos tortoises and two species of Darwin's finches". Zeitschrift für Tierpsychologie. 34(5): 464–483