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thrush

/thruhsh/US // θrʌʃ //UK // (θrʌʃ) //

鹅口疮,鹅口疮患者

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : any of numerous, medium-sized songbirds of the family Turdinae, usually dull brown and often speckled below, and including many outstanding singers.
    • : any of various superficially similar birds, as the water thrushes.
    • : Slang. a female professional singer, especially of popular songs.

Examples

  • Its authors speculate that kombucha “may be very healthful” in combating yeast infections, thrush, and other forms of candidiasis.

  • In the fork of two high branches was a great round nest—oh ever so much bigger than the thrush's and the oriole's.

  • She was twelve years his senior but well preserved and "plump as a thrush after harvest."

  • As she worked, a wood thrush called far off, his last long-drawn note ringing like a sweet, wistful fairy horn.

  • We walked on so together to the spot where we first had met, and where first the thrush had sounded for us his elfin clarion.

  • A wood-thrush flitted from a ravine as she and Bub went back down the creek—and she stopped with uplifted face to listen.