单词 | sheldrake |
释义 | sheldrake (once / 60303 pages) n WORD FAMILY sheldrake: sheldrakes USAGE EXAMPLESEarlier this summer I spent two days there, wandering and talking with a young plant scientist named Merlin Sheldrake. The New Yorker(Aug 07, 2016) "When we used to analyse our marketplaces, we used to resort to statistical significance," Sheldrake points out. The Guardian(Jun 10, 2013) "The biggest organisation we needed to join 6UK was the government," said Philip Sheldrake, former director of the non-profit body. BBC(Dec 07, 2012) 1n Old World gooselike duck slightly larger than a mallard with variegated mostly black-and-white plumage and a red bill Hypo|Hyper shelduck female sheldrake duck small wild or domesticated web-footed broad-billed swimming bird usually having a depressed body and short legs 2n large crested fish-eating diving duck having a slender hooked bill with serrated edges Syn|Hypo|Hyper fish duck, merganser, sawbill Mergus merganser, goosander common merganser of Europe and North America American merganser, Mergus merganser americanuscommon North American diving duck considered a variety of the European goosander Mergus serrator, red-breasted merganserwidely distributed merganser of America and Europe Mergus albellus, smewsmallest merganser and most expert diver; found in northern Eurasia Lophodytes cucullatus, hooded merganser, hooded sheldrakesmall North American duck with a high circular crest on the male's head sea duck any of various large diving ducks found along the seacoast: eider; scoter; merganser |
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