thrush
/thruhsh/US // θrʌʃ //UK // (θrʌʃ) //
鹅口疮,鹅口疮患者
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 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.
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