| 单词 | pratincole |
| 释义 | pratincole (once / 1313257 pages) n WORD FAMILY pratincole: pratincoles USAGE EXAMPLESPratincoles resemble terns when standing, but run like plovers, and on summer evenings, with the terns, they hawk after insects like swallows. Buck, Walter J., Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste)—Records...(2011) The Pratincole, or Swallow-Plover, is a representative of an Old-World family. Leach, John Albert, An Australian Bird Book—A Pocket Bo...(2010) Pratincoles are now beginning to lay—one or two eggs in each nest: but subsequently we got them in baskets-full. Buck, Walter J., Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste)—Records...(2011) n Old World shorebird with long pointed wings and short legs; closely related to the coursers Syn|Hyper glareole limicoline bird, shore bird, shorebird any of numerous wading birds that frequent mostly seashores and estuaries |
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