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peregrine

/per-i-grin, -green, -grahyn/US // ˈpɛr ɪ grɪn, -ˌgrin, -ˌgraɪn //UK // (ˈpɛrɪɡrɪn) //

百灵鸟,游隼,游隼号,游隼鸟

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : foreign; alien; coming from abroad.
    • : wandering, traveling, or migrating.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : peregrine falcon.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as inexotic

Examples

  • More than 6,000 captive-bred peregrine falcons were reintroduced between 1974 and 1997 in 34 states.

  • Maryland and Virginia now have over 50 pairs of “successfully breeding” peregrine falcons, according to wildlife experts.

  • For the first time in almost 70 years, a peregrine falcon chick has hatched and is learning to fly at Harpers Ferry National Historical Park, part of a national comeback story for a species that had largely disappeared in the wild.

  • What happens to the peregrine migrants isn’t just about peregrines—it’s a model for all of those birds.

  • Some of those populations breed high in the Arctic tundra, and individual peregrines fly for thousands of miles and across multiple continents to nest on cliff banks along Arctic rivers.

  • Hero Peregrine – Actress Cree Summer gave this name to her daughter, who joined sister Brave Littlewing.

  • About a year ago, Peregrine Financial CEO Russell Wasendorf Sr. was found attempting to kill himself in his car.

  • The boy was sent to a private school of a high character, and Sir Peregrine was sure that he had been so sent at his own advice.

  • And with these views he returned home—while Peregrine Orme at Oxford was still addicted to the hunting of rats.

  • Sir Peregrine himself at this time was an old man, having passed his seventieth year.

  • Young timber also throve well about the place, and in this respect Sir Peregrine was a careful landlord.

  • After that such a man or woman might as well spare all speech as regards the hope of any effect on the mind of Sir Peregrine Orme.