单词 | cattle egret |
释义 | cattle egret in American English a small, white egret (Bubulcus ibis), an Old World bird that has expanded its range to North and South America: it often feeds on insects attracted to cattle and other grazing animals cattle egret in American Englishnoun an egret, Bubulcus ibis, cosmopolitan in warmer regions, often associating with grazing animals for the insects that hover around them Word origin [1900–05]This word is first recorded in the period 1900–05. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: Young Turk, burnout, clone, decompression, desensitizeExamples of 'cattle egret' in a sentence |
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