单词 | hoopoe |
释义 | hoopoe (once / 31519 pages) n WORD FAMILY hoopoe: hoopoes USAGE EXAMPLESWe listened to the call of a hoopoe bird. Wall Street Journal(Oct 20, 2016) The path Beneath my feet is no longer the path, Only my dream Of the wasp, the hoopoes, the fog. The New Yorker(Jul 13, 2016) “Hear that? Those are turacos. And there’s a wood hoopoe. And there’s a gray mousebird; do you see that long tail?” Richard Preston, The Hot Zone(1994) n any of several crested Old World birds with a slender downward-curved bill Syn|Hypo|Hyper hoopoo Euopean hoopoe, Upupa epops pinkish-brown hoopoe with black-and-white wings coraciiform bird chiefly short-legged arboreal nonpasserine birds that nest in holes |
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