单词 | weaverbird |
释义 | weaverbird (extremely rare) n WORD FAMILY weaverbird USAGE EXAMPLESA weaverbird, yellow as police tape, flitted about, building a nest. The New Yorker(Jun 20, 2016) The bird may have been a weaverbird—no one knows —and it may have died of a Level 4 virus—no one knows. Richard Preston, The Hot Zone(1994) Banga suddenly hurled a rock and struck a weaverbird just as it perched on its nest. Nancy Farmer, The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm(1994) n finch-like African and Asian colonial birds noted for their elaborately woven nests Syn|Hypo|Hyper weaver, weaver finch Ploceus philippinus, baya common Indian weaverbird whidah, whydah, widow birdmostly black African weaverbird Java finch, Java sparrow, Padda oryzivora, ricebirdsmall finch-like Indonesian weaverbird that frequents rice fields amadavat, avadavatred Asian weaverbirds often kept as cage birds grass finch, grassfinchusually brightly-colored Australian weaverbirds; often kept as cage birds Poephila castanotis, zebra finchsmall Australian weaverbird with markings like a zebra's oscine, oscine bird passerine bird having specialized vocal apparatus |
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