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wheatear

/hweet-eer, weet-/US // ˈʰwitˌɪər, ˈwit- //UK // (ˈwiːtˌɪə) //

麦田,麦苗,麦穗,麦子

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : any of several small, chiefly Old World thrushes of the genus Oenanthe, having a distinctive white rump, especially O. oenanthe, of Eurasia and North America.

Examples

  • One would not expect to find a wheatear in a wood, or a wren in a reed-bed.

  • While talking, a wheatear flew past, and alighted near the path—a place they frequent.

  • They lie crushed together at the base, and on the point of this jagged ridge a wheatear perches.

  • There is not a quail, not a blackbird, not the smallest rabbit nor even the tiniest wheatear.

  • The sycamore by the ruined chancel pattered in the breeze, and the wheatear's last notes came from its top-most bough.

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