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单词 songbird
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Definition of songbird in English:

songbird

noun ˈsɒŋbəːdˈsɔŋˌbərd
  • 1A bird with a musical song.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Our results demonstrate that our model area-sensitive songbird, the Eastern Yellow Robin, experienced relative food shortage in the breeding season in small vs. large fragments.
    • A species of territorial songbird colonizes a vacant region to which there is no further immigration.
    • At first glance, you might wonder why any forest songbird should be in jeopardy.
    • These tours are the best opportunity to view this endangered songbird, since Kirtland's warbler nesting areas in northern Michigan are closed and posted against public entry during the nesting season.
    • The other black songbird I had not seen well until this afternoon.
    • Anything to avoid another night listening to Jennifer's account of how she catalogued every songbird in Ambridge on the website that day.
    • Cowbird removals are used in management of several endangered species of songbird.
    • We examined nest-patch vegetation of the Golden - cheeked Warbler, a federally endangered migratory songbird.
    • Only a few shorebirds linger now, and our songbirds are rapidly deserting us for more productive feeding areas to the south.
    • Human beings suffered terribly, as did songbird populations, old-growth forests, fur seal colonies, and fragile watersheds.
    • Then, just as I made out the outline of a small brown songbird, the whole flock took to the air again and disappeared over a rise.
    • Pygmy Nuthatches are one of only a few cooperatively breeding songbirds in North America.
    • The Black-capped Chickadee, a resident cavity-nesting songbird, is known to breed in fragmented and otherwise disturbed habitats.
    • Parallels between human and songbird phonological development have led to the use of songbirds as a model for speech development in humans.
    • For example, weather during the breeding season and storm frequency during migration might be related to the same climatic factors, both of which could affect songbird numbers.
    • These results provide experimental confirmation that conspecific attraction occurs in at least one territorial songbird.
    • A recent study of a North American songbird, the Red-eyed Vireo, provides some support for this hypothesis.
    • In Chapter 1, the author introduces the robin as America's most well-known songbird: ‘It is as American as apple pie, baseball, and the Stars and Stripes.’
    • Suddenly, one lonely songbird pierced the wall of silence with a stunning serenade.
    • Take the case of the coastal California gnatcatcher, a diminutive, grayish blue songbird with a home range limited to coastal southern California and northwestern Baja California, Mexico.
  • 2Ornithology
    A perching bird of an advanced group distinguished by having the muscles of the syrinx attached to the bronchial semi-rings; an oscine passerine.

    Suborder Oscines, order Passeriformes; in Europe ‘songbird’ is effectively synonymous with ‘passerine’ or ‘perching bird’.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • All extant European songbirds belong to the oscines, which are assumed to have arisen on the Australian continental plate.
    • But the physical part of the syrinx in small songbirds is kind of similar from one bird to the next.
    • In such trees the oscine songbirds were separated from suboscines, and they are usually the first avian branch (although the rest of the tree was virtually unchanged).
    • Because of their complex songs and specialized neural pathways for learning them, songbirds, or oscines, have been favored subjects of study among scientists.
    • Passeriformes is divided into two suborders; most of these birds are Passerii, oscine songbirds.
  • 3informal A female singer.

    the title track is the kind of tune any Nashville songbird could do
    Example sentencesExamples
    • I am a new York secretary by day, sexy songbird by night.
    • American Idol songbird Kimberley Locke takes the stage at 1 a.m. today, followed by Deborah Cox at 1 a.m.
    • Well, the ex- ‘American Idol’ contestant almost went from songbird to jailbird.
    • But, rather than mope, the plucky Canadian songbird decided to make the most of it.
    • Then there was the time that I just happened to catch Ken rushing to the Las Vegas airport in the wee hours of the morning after tending to the spectacular backstage strands of songbird Celine Dion.
    • For those who just walked into this movie, Jolie Holland is a San Francisco-based alt-country songbird who quietly burst on the scene with the chimerical field recording of 2003's Catalpa.
    • And Zambian music fans have shown just how popular the songbird Angela Nyirenda has continued to be.
    • Bolton Hospice Lottery is officially launched by Bolton songbird Hannah Morris, and a very special grandmother.
    • So Foster's got this vaguely martyr-like songbird persona she's working, and sometimes the devious witch bit sticks out too, as on ‘Crackerjack Fool’.
    • I could also kick myself for not getting to NHK Hall for the concert by super songbird Sarah Brightman.
    • On Saturday night Mark, Paul, Simon and I went to see songbird Martina Topley-Bird at the Carling Islington Academy.
    • Move over Brit-pop, and bring on another depressive songbird accompanied by an acoustic guitar.
    • Based in Austin, Texas, this songbird spent years in obscurity before this debut.
    • The many Listowel fans of songbird Peggy Sweeney will be delighted to know that she has just released a new CD for the New Year.
    • Meanwhile Thom Yorke, the thinking woman's songbird of choice, joins her on This Mess We're In, an affecting duet which could be Bends-era Radiohead and which Harvey wrote especially for him.
    • Good luck to Celine Dion, who is putting down her microphone to try to have a little Canadian songbird of her own.
    • It was not until a certain jet-black-haired songbird had the courage to step forward and let the world know she suffered from this debilitating affliction that I knew I too could stand tall, gassy burning throat and all.
    • Music is the bridge between the old Italian saloon singer and the barefoot Canadian songbird.
    • In the late '60s, Sparro had been a folky four-octave songbird with a cult following, not that any of his albums ever charted.
    • And Colombian songbird Shakira is out with a new video.
 
 

Definition of songbird in US English:

songbird

nounˈsôNGˌbərdˈsɔŋˌbərd
  • 1A bird with a musical song.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Only a few shorebirds linger now, and our songbirds are rapidly deserting us for more productive feeding areas to the south.
    • These tours are the best opportunity to view this endangered songbird, since Kirtland's warbler nesting areas in northern Michigan are closed and posted against public entry during the nesting season.
    • In Chapter 1, the author introduces the robin as America's most well-known songbird: ‘It is as American as apple pie, baseball, and the Stars and Stripes.’
    • The Black-capped Chickadee, a resident cavity-nesting songbird, is known to breed in fragmented and otherwise disturbed habitats.
    • Pygmy Nuthatches are one of only a few cooperatively breeding songbirds in North America.
    • Then, just as I made out the outline of a small brown songbird, the whole flock took to the air again and disappeared over a rise.
    • These results provide experimental confirmation that conspecific attraction occurs in at least one territorial songbird.
    • Suddenly, one lonely songbird pierced the wall of silence with a stunning serenade.
    • A recent study of a North American songbird, the Red-eyed Vireo, provides some support for this hypothesis.
    • Anything to avoid another night listening to Jennifer's account of how she catalogued every songbird in Ambridge on the website that day.
    • A species of territorial songbird colonizes a vacant region to which there is no further immigration.
    • At first glance, you might wonder why any forest songbird should be in jeopardy.
    • Our results demonstrate that our model area-sensitive songbird, the Eastern Yellow Robin, experienced relative food shortage in the breeding season in small vs. large fragments.
    • Take the case of the coastal California gnatcatcher, a diminutive, grayish blue songbird with a home range limited to coastal southern California and northwestern Baja California, Mexico.
    • The other black songbird I had not seen well until this afternoon.
    • We examined nest-patch vegetation of the Golden - cheeked Warbler, a federally endangered migratory songbird.
    • Parallels between human and songbird phonological development have led to the use of songbirds as a model for speech development in humans.
    • For example, weather during the breeding season and storm frequency during migration might be related to the same climatic factors, both of which could affect songbird numbers.
    • Cowbird removals are used in management of several endangered species of songbird.
    • Human beings suffered terribly, as did songbird populations, old-growth forests, fur seal colonies, and fragile watersheds.
  • 2Ornithology
    A perching bird of an advanced group distinguished by having the muscles of the syrinx attached to the bronchial semirings; an oscine passerine.

    Suborder Oscines, order Passeriformes; in Europe ‘songbird’ is effectively synonymous with ‘passerine’ or ‘perching bird.’

    Example sentencesExamples
    • But the physical part of the syrinx in small songbirds is kind of similar from one bird to the next.
    • All extant European songbirds belong to the oscines, which are assumed to have arisen on the Australian continental plate.
    • In such trees the oscine songbirds were separated from suboscines, and they are usually the first avian branch (although the rest of the tree was virtually unchanged).
    • Passeriformes is divided into two suborders; most of these birds are Passerii, oscine songbirds.
    • Because of their complex songs and specialized neural pathways for learning them, songbirds, or oscines, have been favored subjects of study among scientists.
  • 3informal A female singer.

    the title track is the kind of tune any Nashville songbird could do
    Example sentencesExamples
    • And Colombian songbird Shakira is out with a new video.
    • In the late '60s, Sparro had been a folky four-octave songbird with a cult following, not that any of his albums ever charted.
    • Bolton Hospice Lottery is officially launched by Bolton songbird Hannah Morris, and a very special grandmother.
    • So Foster's got this vaguely martyr-like songbird persona she's working, and sometimes the devious witch bit sticks out too, as on ‘Crackerjack Fool’.
    • But, rather than mope, the plucky Canadian songbird decided to make the most of it.
    • Meanwhile Thom Yorke, the thinking woman's songbird of choice, joins her on This Mess We're In, an affecting duet which could be Bends-era Radiohead and which Harvey wrote especially for him.
    • American Idol songbird Kimberley Locke takes the stage at 1 a.m. today, followed by Deborah Cox at 1 a.m.
    • Good luck to Celine Dion, who is putting down her microphone to try to have a little Canadian songbird of her own.
    • Well, the ex- ‘American Idol’ contestant almost went from songbird to jailbird.
    • And Zambian music fans have shown just how popular the songbird Angela Nyirenda has continued to be.
    • On Saturday night Mark, Paul, Simon and I went to see songbird Martina Topley-Bird at the Carling Islington Academy.
    • I am a new York secretary by day, sexy songbird by night.
    • Music is the bridge between the old Italian saloon singer and the barefoot Canadian songbird.
    • Then there was the time that I just happened to catch Ken rushing to the Las Vegas airport in the wee hours of the morning after tending to the spectacular backstage strands of songbird Celine Dion.
    • I could also kick myself for not getting to NHK Hall for the concert by super songbird Sarah Brightman.
    • For those who just walked into this movie, Jolie Holland is a San Francisco-based alt-country songbird who quietly burst on the scene with the chimerical field recording of 2003's Catalpa.
    • It was not until a certain jet-black-haired songbird had the courage to step forward and let the world know she suffered from this debilitating affliction that I knew I too could stand tall, gassy burning throat and all.
    • Based in Austin, Texas, this songbird spent years in obscurity before this debut.
    • The many Listowel fans of songbird Peggy Sweeney will be delighted to know that she has just released a new CD for the New Year.
    • Move over Brit-pop, and bring on another depressive songbird accompanied by an acoustic guitar.
 
 
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