“killdeer”的英文意思

单词

killdeer

释义

killdee, killdeer|ˈkɪldiː, -dɪə(r)|
Also kil-.
[Imitative of its note.]
The largest species of ring-plover (ægialitis vocifera) of North America.
1731Mortimer in Phil. Trans. XXXVII. 176 The Chattering Plover. In Virginia they are called Kildeers, from some Resemblance of their Noise to the Sound of that Word.1796Morse Amer. Geog. I. 214 Kildee or Chattering Plover.a1862Thoreau Cape Cod vii. (1865) 123 The kildeer plover..fills the air above with its din.1888J. C. Harris Free Joe, etc. 26 As happy..as a killdee by a mill-race.

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