lapwing / ˈlæpˌwɪŋ /

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lapwing 的定义

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.
  2. any of several similar, related plovers.

更多lapwing例句

  1. And cf. 'to seem the lapwing and to jest, Tongue far from heart'; Meas.
  2. 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.
  3. And here is a moorcock's; and this—I should know it among a thousand—it's a lapwing's.
  4. I made him promise he'd never shoot a lapwing after that, and he didn't.
  5. It was sometimes represented as a crane, at others as a lapwing.