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wildfowl

/wahyld-foul/US // ˈwaɪldˌfaʊl //UK // (ˈwaɪldˌfaʊl) //

野鸟,野禽,野生鸟类,野生动物

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a game bird, especially a wild duck, goose, or swan.

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Examples

  • Probably in October, the Pilgrims met their Wampanoag neighbors for three days of feasting on wildfowl and venison.

  • The air was so calm that the plaintive cries of thousands of wildfowl which covered the Point of Marsh struck faintly on our ears.

  • In summer, like the wildfowl, they disappear and go north to seek cool pastures in the Mongolian highlands.

  • Diametrically different—in cause and effect—is the case of wildfowl.

  • In five minutes they were all in the ocean, frisky as a school of porpoises, making enough noise to scare any wildfowl away.

  • Schoverling and Charlie employed the shotgun in turn, shooting from their horses, and stocking the whole camp with wildfowl.