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anhinga

/an-hing-guh/US // ænˈhɪŋ gə //UK // (ænˈhɪŋɡə) //

鼻烟壶,犀牛花,犀牛,犀牛座

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : any of various totipalmate swimming birds of the family Anhingidae, having a very long and flexible neck.

Examples

  • A bird found in Florida, the Anhinga, has in its brain a nematode whose presence in that organ is not accidental.

  • The latter, I must confess, did not seem to us so nice as the dark-colored meat of the anhinga.

  • He says he found a peculiar parasite in the brain of the Anhinga.

  • It was an anhinga, one of the most singular specimens of web-footed birds that can be found anywhere.

  • Ripley reports the occurrence of "about a dozen anhingas (presumably Anhinga melanogaster)" at Babelthuap on 12 November 1946.