单词 | sandgrouse |
释义 | sandgrouse (once / 695254 pages) n WORD FAMILY sandgrouse USAGE EXAMPLESThe areas covered by the trail are home to a variety of birds, including honeycreepers, golden plovers and chestnut-bellied sandgrouse. Washington Times(Apr 11, 2016) Sandgrouse were few, but commoner towards the central plateau, where were water-holes. Thompson, Edward John, The Leicestershires beyond Baghdad(2010) n pigeon-like bird of arid regions of the Old World having long pointed wings and tail and precocial downy young Syn|Hypo|Hyper sand grouse Pterocles indicus, painted sandgrouse sandgrouse of India Pterocles alchata, pin-tailed grouse, pin-tailed sandgrousesandgrouse of Europe and Africa having elongated middle tail feathers Syrrhaptes paradoxus, pallas's sandgrouseEurasiatic sandgrouse with a black patch on the belly columbiform bird a cosmopolitan order of land birds having small heads and short legs with four unwebbed toes |
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