cowbird

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