chough

/chuhf/US // tʃʌf //UK // (tʃʌf) //

咳嗽,咳嗽声,咳嗽咳嗽,硬币

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : any of several crowlike Old World birds, especially Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax, of Europe.

Whether the European Chough should not form a distinct genus is a matter of opinion.
According to them he alone is responsible for the disappearance of his distinguished relation, the chough.
But of the chough in captivity or as a domesticated bird we know little now, as no records have been preserved.
Not many years since, the Chough was far from uncommon in several parts of the coast of Devon and Cornwall.
Mr. Lemon had a favourite tame Cornish chough that would always obey his call.