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crow

/kroh/US // kroʊ //UK // (krəʊ) //

乌鸦,人群,人群中,人群中的

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : any of several large oscine birds of the genus Corvus, of the family Corvidae, having a long, stout bill, lustrous black plumage, and a wedge-shaped tail, as the common C. brachyrhynchos, of North America.
    • : any of several other birds of the family Corvidae.
    • : any of various similar birds of other families.
    • : Astronomy. the constellation Corvus.
    • : crowbar.

Phrases

  • crown jewels
  • crow over
  • as the crow flies
  • eat crow

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • Outside, a flock of crows takes off in unison from the branches of an ancient oak.

  • Almost all young mammals play, as do birds like parrots and crows.

  • Neuroscientists have become increasingly interested in birds like the crow, which appear to be able to think creatively in ways that mirror human cognition.

  • It’s the first time that researchers have observed this behavior in snakes, though animals like crows or raccoons eat some toads in a similar fashion.

  • Some sponsorship contracts are being sold for anything between five to 10 times lower than usual, Crow said.

  • This mass incarceration is destroying the Black community -- it is, as Michelle Alexander writes, the New Jim Crow.

  • Thus, during Jim Crow, black men were routinely hanged, castrated, and lynched for alleged sexual assaults against white women.

  • Each working in its own way was essential to ending Jim Crow in the South.

  • Slowly, still falteringly but inexorably, Jim Crow justice was disappearing in the South.

  • “It tasted like a crow enchilada,” Morrissey said, as he literally ate his words.

  • Not much use as the high crests hid the intervening hinterland from view, even from the crow's nests.

  • The cat had been about to spring at Grandfather Mole again when Mr. Crow spoke to her.

  • And he quite agreed with old Mr. Crow, who had come hurrying up to see what was going on.

  • Mr. Crow was rocking back and forth on his perch, for a joke—on anybody except himself—always delighted him.

  • Farmer Green's cat had never liked Mr. Crow, for no particular reason.

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