macaw

/muh-kaw/US // məˈkɔ //UK // (məˈkɔː) //

金刚鹦鹉,金刚鱼

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : any of various large, long-tailed parrots of tropical and subtropical America, noted for their brilliant plumage and distinctive light-colored facial patches: of the six macaw genera, Ara includes the most familiar and greatest number of species, while Cyanopsitta has just one species, C. spixii, a small, blue macaw, now classified as possibly extinct in the wild.

It’s very hot in the rainforests, and we were filming little poison dart frogs and scarlet macaws.
But those who had chosen the macaw, became the Macaw People.
It consisted of a monologue delivered by the poisonous young woman to the macaw, occasionally varied by ad lib.
One could hardly call him a crimson macaw among owls, and yet no ordinary contrast availed.
Next morning a kangaroo and a macaw strolled into Raikes's bedroom.
On the top of the next tree sat an extraordinary-looking bird, about the size of a pheasant, colored blue and rose like a macaw.