Heron
['her(ə)n] or ['hɛrən]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) grey or white wading bird with long neck and long legs and (usually) long bill.
海耶斯校對--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) Any wading bird of the genus Ardea and allied genera, of the family Ardeidae. The herons have a long, sharp bill, and long legs and toes, with the claw of the middle toe toothed. The common European heron (Ardea cinerea) is remarkable for its directly ascending flight, and was formerly hunted with the larger falcons.
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同義詞及近義詞:
n. Hernshaw, heronshaw.
編輯:凯利
解釋/意思:
n. a large screaming water-fowl with long legs and neck.—n. Her′onry a place where herons breed.
錄入:罗兰
例句/造句/用法:
- Heron has described how a pied peacock was eminently attractive to all his hen birds. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- While she looked a heron arose on that side of the sky and flew on with his face towards the sun. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- When she was in a high wind her light body was blown against trees and banks like a heron's. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- HERON FOSTER, editor of a Pittsburgh journal, and a most estimable gentleman. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- But there was no reply to Wildeve's shout, save a mournful whining from the herons which were nesting lower down the vale. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
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