| 释义 |
ˈpoor-will
[So named in imitation of its disyllabic note: cf. whip-poor-will.]
A bird of the N. American genus Phalænoptilus, esp. P. nuttalli, common in the Western United States.
1888Roosevelt in Century Mag. Mar. 664/2 At nightfall the poor-wills begin to utter their boding call from the wooded ravines back in the hills; not ‘whip-poor-will’, as in the East, but with two syllables only. Ibid., A poor-will lit on the floor beside me. |