单词 | chickadee |
释义 | chickadee From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Animalschickadeechick‧a‧dee /ˈtʃɪkədiː/ noun [countable]HBAa North American bird with a black headExamples from the Corpuschickadee• The voracious shrews and chickadees await them.• Table 3.2 Sherry and Galef's experiment on the learning of black-backed chickadees to open milk containers.• A lovely chickadee flew down and perched on her ankle.• Deep in the woods there are mixed flocks of chickadees and kinglets, and they chirp incessantly though unobtrusively.• As I leave the cabin clearing, I soon meet up with a troupe of over ten chickadees.• That chickadee is looking at you.• Golden-crowned kinglets often accompany the chickadees, so I follow this troupe to look for them.• After half an hour, however, I am convinced that these chickadees are unaccompanied by any other birds.Origin chickadee (1800-1900) From the sound it makes |
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