| 单词 | cliff swallow |
| 释义 | > as lemmascliff swallow cliff swallow n. any of several American and African swallows of the genus Petrochelidon, living colonially and building conical mud nests on cliffs or walls; cf. mud swallow n. at mud n.1 Compounds 2b. ΚΠ 1823 E. James Acct. Exped. Rocky Mts II. vi. 185 They also saw..innumerable nests of the cliff swallows. 1844 R. W. Emerson Ess. 2nd Ser. iv. 130 The rock-Tibboos still dwell in caves, like cliff-swallows. 1931 H. S. Williams Bk. Marvels 57 The cliff swallow now plasters its mud nest under the eaves. 2000 Guardian 19 June i. 16/8 We could also see tree swallows, flashing bluish-green as they swooped before our eyes;..and two cliff swallows. cliff swallow cliff swallow n. one of several species of the genus Petrochelidon, nesting in cliffs. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > non-arboreal (larks, etc.) > [noun] > family Hirundinidae > genus Petrochelidan > species Pyrrhonota (cliff swallow) republican swallow1824 mud swallow1868 cliff swallow1870 mud-dauber1899 1870 J. R. Lowell My Study Windows (1886) 18 The cliff-swallow..has come and gone. < as lemmas |
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