hoatzin
/hoh-at-sin, waht-sin/US // hoʊˈæt sɪn, ˈwɑt sɪn //UK // (həʊˈætsɪn) //
浩津,浩亭,浩然,浩然正气
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
- : a blue-faced, crested bird, Opisthocomus hoazin, of the Amazon and Orinoco forests, having as a nestling a large, temporary claw on the second and third digits of the forelimb, for climbing among the tree branches.
Examples
The other tribe is represented by that strange bird the hoatzin of the Amazon.
But it is not nearly so long as in the hoatzin, and there is no terminal claw.
The flight of the hoatzin resembles that of an over-fed hen.
Such is the normal right destiny of a hoatzin chick, and the whee-og!
For the young hoatzin is hatched in a nursery—a crude nest of sticks—placed on the boughs of a tree overhanging the water.
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