单词 | grey hen |
释义 | grey hen (once / 246236 pages) n WORD FAMILY grey hen: grey hens USAGE EXAMPLESThe grey dissolves into dawn, the dawn into light, and the first blackcock crows to his grey hen in the hollow. Anonymous, The Confessions of a Poacher(2011) Look at the ostrich—the cock, black and handsome, so strikingly different from the commonplace grey hen! Fitzpatrick, Percy, Sir, Jock of the Bushveld(2011) And when I looked out the front door there were the old man baboon plucking the feathers from the grey hen.” Glanville, Ernest, Tales from the Veld(2011) n female black grouse Syn|Hyper gray hen, grayhen, greyhen, heath hen black grouse grouse of which the male is bluish-black |
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