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单词 veery
释义 veery U.S.|ˈvɪərɪ|
[? Imitative.]
A North American thrush (Hylocichla fuscescens), also called tawny and Wilson's thrush.
1838Thoreau Jrnl. in Writings (1906) VII. 70 Sometimes I hear the veery's silver clarion.1845S. Judd Margaret ii. i, The place flows with birds,..deep in the forest [are] olive-backs, veeries, oven-birds.1860Whittier My Playmate xv, There in spring the veeries sing The song of long ago.1883Cent. Mag. Sept. 685/1 Our thrushes are all frank, open-mannered birds; but the veery and the hermit build upon the ground.
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