| 释义 |
swiftlet|ˈswɪftlɪt|
[f. swift n.2 + -let.]
A little or young swift; a small species of swift, as those of the genus Collocalia, which construct the edible birds' nest of China.
1892Cornh. Mag. May 535 Would the swift have to go nestless, to the inconvenience, if not fatal prejudice, of generations of swiftlets unborn? 1898Sven Hedin's Through Asia xix. 245 The edible nests of the swallow, or, more correctly swiftlet. |