英语词汇“avocet”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

avocet

/ˈavəsɛt

noun

A long-legged wading bird with a slender upturned bill and strikingly patterned plumage.

Genus Recurvirostra, family Recurvirostridae: four species, in particular R. avosetta of Eurasia, which has black-and-white plumage.

Shorebirds, for those of you who want to know but are afraid to ask, comprise many families of birds, including oystercatchers, stilts, avocets, plovers, turnstones, sandpipers and phalaropes....

Currently, visitors to the flats are likely to see sandpipers, avocets, oystercatchers, godwits, dowitchers, plovers and other shorebirds on their way south.
There are herons, ducks, geese, ospreys, eagles, vultures, pelicans, gulls, plovers, avocets, storks, francolins, guinea fowls and many more.

Origin

Late 17th century: from French avocette, from Italian avosetta.

单词	avocet
释义	avocet /ˈavəsɛt / noun A long-legged wading bird with a slender upturned bill and strikingly patterned plumage. Genus Recurvirostra, family Recurvirostridae: four species, in particular R. avosetta of Eurasia, which has black-and-white plumage. Shorebirds, for those of you who want to know but are afraid to ask, comprise many families of birds, including oystercatchers, stilts, avocets, plovers, turnstones, sandpipers and phalaropes.... Currently, visitors to the flats are likely to see sandpipers, avocets, oystercatchers, godwits, dowitchers, plovers and other shorebirds on their way south. There are herons, ducks, geese, ospreys, eagles, vultures, pelicans, gulls, plovers, avocets, storks, francolins, guinea fowls and many more. Origin Late 17th century: from French avocette, from Italian avosetta.
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