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
- : 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.
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