lapwing
/lap-wing/US // ˈlæpˌwɪŋ //UK // (ˈlæpˌwɪŋ) //
蜻蛉,蜻蛉鸟,琵翼鸟,蜻蜓点水
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
- : a large Old World plover, Vanellus vanellus, having a long, slender, upcurved crest, an erratic, flapping flight, and a shrill cry.
- : any of several similar, related plovers.
Examples
And cf. 'to seem the lapwing and to jest, Tongue far from heart'; Meas.
A low call came from a brooding curlew, a faint sigh from a plover, and the wild rasping cry of a lapwing greeted them overhead.
And here is a moorcock's; and this—I should know it among a thousand—it's a lapwing's.
I made him promise he'd never shoot a lapwing after that, and he didn't.
It was sometimes represented as a crane, at others as a lapwing.
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