释义 |
cha·rad·ri·us \kəˈradrēəs\ noun Usage: capitalized Etymology: New Latin, from Late Latin, a bird, perhaps the thick-knee, from Greek charadrios, from charadra ravine; akin to Greek charassein to sharpen, cut into furrows — more at character : a genus (the type of the family Charadriidae) of plovers comprising small or medium-sized birds (as the piping plover) but sometimes (as formerly) including also the golden plovers |