英语字典

cowbird

C 开头单词

基本解释

  • n.北美产的燕八哥

同根派生

     

英汉例句

    双语例句

  • People have long wondered how cowbird can get away with leaving their eggs in the nests of other species, who then raise the baby cowbirds.
    人们一直奇怪牛鹂为何能够成功地把自己的蛋留在其他鸟类的巢中，而其他鸟类就会帮其抚养其幼鸟。
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    • 权威例句

  • Nests from which cowbird eggs had been removed, but which lacked protection, did badly.
    ECONOMIST: How cowbirds run protection rackets
  • In the following seasons Dr Hoover and Dr Robinson removed cowbird eggs from some of the parasitised nests.
    ECONOMIST: How cowbirds run protection rackets
  • Nests thus attacked yielded, on average, but a single fledgling, whereas those with a cowbird egg in them yielded three warbler fledglings.
    ECONOMIST: How cowbirds run protection rackets

词组短语

    短语

  • Giant Cowbird 巨牛鹂
  • headed Cowbird 棕头牛鹂
  • Bronzed Cowbird 铜色牛鹂
  • Shiny Cowbird 紫辉牛鹂
  • Screaming Cowbird 啸声牛鹂

英英字典

    柯林斯英英字典

  • any of various American orioles of the genera Molothrus, Tangavius, etc, esp M. ater (common or brown-headed cowbird). They have a dark plumage and short bill