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rooster

/roo-ster/US // ˈru stər //UK // (ˈruːstə) //

雄鸡,公鸡

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the male of domestic fowl and certain game birds; cock.
    • : a representation of this bird, used as an emblem of the Democratic Party from 1842 to 1874.
    • : Informal. a cocky person.

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Examples

  • In 2019, the bronze horse head statue was returned nearly 160 years after it was pilfered, but the whereabouts of the snake, dog, sheep, dragon and rooster remain unknown.

  • Hens were raised as egg layers while the roosters were the first ones to become Sunday dinner.

  • In fact, hunters could harvest as much as 93 percent of pre-hunt roosters without hurting the population as a whole, according to Pheasants Forever, a nonprofit dedicated to conserving wildlife habitat.

  • Lawler notes that in the Zoroastrian religion of the Persians, the rooster was of the utmost importance.

  • His last words were, “Crito, we owe a rooster to Asclepius.”

  • Nicaragua: The name of the country's traditional dish, gallo pinto, translates to "spotted rooster."

  • Samuelsson: I love to head over to Red Rooster and see my guests.

  • The Daily Beast: Is the holiday a busy time for Red Rooster Harlem?

  • For the rooster who was always perched on the weather-vane on the barn was up so high and he shone like gold.

  • But Mother Wyandotte didn't bother about anything so high in the sky as the sun and the rooster.

  • There were a number of chickens on board and each rooster seemed obliged to salute the dawn with a fanfare of crowing.

  • The little bantam can crow quicker, oftener and with more ginger than any other rooster on the place.

  • "That's the last time you get me, old rooster," he said, in a voice that did not belong to him.