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单词 fire-bird
释义 ˈfire-bird
Also 6 fieres-bird.
1.
a. A bird which stays by or hovers round the fire (quot. 1593).
b. (See quot. 1865.)
1593Tell-troth's New Y. Gift 12 This weather-beaten fieres-bird.1865Tylor Early Hist. Man. ix. 252 The story of the fire-bird..a bird which pecked at it [a tree] and made fire come forth.
2. a. U.S. A popular name of the Baltimore oriole, Icterus galbula. b. A kind of bee-eater.
1824W. Irving T. Trav. (1849) 436 The fire-bird streamed by them with his deep-red plumage.1856Bryant Poems, Indian Story viii, The hollow woods..Ring shrill with the fire-bird's lay.1892Pall Mall G. 12 Nov. 3/1 You may watch the red fire-bird (a kind of bee-eater) as it sweeps..round the bush-grown moat of the fortress.
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