英语词汇“cow、bird”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

cow-bird

释义

ˈcow-bird
[f. cow n.¹]
1. ? See quot.
1816Keatinge Trav. (1817) I. 206 The cow-bird is seen an attendant upon herds of cattle [between Mogador and Morocco]..He resembles the sea-gull but his plumage is pure white.
2. U.S.
a. A name for several species of Molothrus, esp. M. ater or M. pecoris (called also cow-blackbird, cow-bunting); so called from their habit of constantly attending cattle.
b. The Yellow-billed Cuckoo (Coccyzus americanus).
1828Audubon Amer. Ornithol. Biog. I. 18 in Penny Cycl. VIII. 210 From the resemblance of its notes to that word [cow, cow], this Cuckoo is named Cow Bird in nearly every part of the union.a1839Nuttall in Penny Cycl. XV. 308/1 Another of these birds forsook the nest on taking out the Cow-Bird's egg.1883Century Mag. Sept. 683/2 The cow-bird makes room for her own illegitimate egg in the nest by removing one of the bird's own.
3. A local name for the Yellow Wagtail (Motacilla Raii.) Swainson, Prov. Names of Birds (1885) 45.

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