whippoorwill / ˈʰwɪp ərˌwɪl, ˈwɪp-; ˌʰwɪp ərˈwɪl, ˌwɪp- /
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whippoorwill 的定义
n. 名词 noun- a nocturnal North American nightjar, Caprimulgus vociferus, having a variegated plumage of gray, black, white, and tawny.
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- And if I win, I claim the first whippoorwill you shoot; the second may go to your aunt.
- The nighthawk and whippoorwill are its relatives, and it resembles them not a little, especially in its nocturnal habits.
- In fact, Tory and Miss Frean did not go indoors until, from somewhere deep in the woods, a whippoorwill began his evening call.
- In the warm, scented dusk the locusts shrilled in the trees, and far up the gorge the whippoorwill called and called.
- He heard Quekolis, the whippoorwill, raising his doleful lament down near the river.